Mundaneum

Please allow 7 working days to process before shipping Digitally printed short sleeve rayon shirt - Button at open spread collarButton closure at front - Patch pocket at chestPrinted, cut & sewn in NY Decades before Alan Turing pioneered computer science and Vannevar Bush imagined the web, a visionary Belgian idealist named Paul Otlet set out to organize the world’s information. For nearly half a century, he worked unrelentingly alongside partner Henri La Fontaine to index and catalog every significant piece of human thought ever published or recorded, building a massive Universal Bibliography of 15 million books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, posters, museum pieces, and other assorted media. His monumental collection was predicated not on ownership but on access and sharing — while amassing it, he kept devising increasingly ambitious schemes for enabling universal access, fostering peaceful relations between nations, and democratizing human knowledge through a global i