Account of the possibility of a world encyclopedia that could function as a distributed cerebral cortex for a global, human brain. Also interesting in his assumption that data organization schemes are ideologically neutral and that the presentation of facts will necessarily lead to the standardization of interpretation. Similarly, his interest in creating a common ideology (in 1937) seems suspect.
Nonetheless, this is probably one of the major works of transhuman thought from this period, along with the Huxley essay and Teilhard’s book.