Ken Hillis, UNC Professor of Media and Technology Studies and coauthor of the recent book “Google and the Culture of Search,” historicizes the centuries-old desire for total encyclopedic knowledge, tracing Google’s quest to organize the world’s information through a lineage of mathematicians and metaphysicians, from the ancient atomists to medieval polymath Ramón Llull to science fiction writer H.G. Wells.

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