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An essay by Nishan Stepak on the lineage of universal-knowledge projects — Ashurbanipal, Alexandria, the House of Wisdom, the Bodleian, Wells’s World Brain, Bush’s Memex, Google Books, and the convergence of LLMs with knowledge graphs into a Universal Knowledge Graph.
By Nishan Stepak · Published 2026-05-20.