- Paul Otlet’s 1934 “réseau mondial” concept is highlighted as an early vision of the World Wide Web, featuring networked “electric telescopes” that would let users remotely view microfilm pages in real time, with the added twist of requesting page turns across a physical optical link.  
- Participants debate the physical feasibility of Otlet’s optical microfiche transmission, comparing it to reading a book through binoculars and noting that long-distance optical imaging would likely yield only unresolved fuzzy dots.  
- MIT’s bokode (a high-density optical tag developed by Ramesh Raskar’s team) is introduced as a modern short-range analog, illustrating how optical data encoding can work over limited distances.  
- A link to the Mundaneum archive (http://www.mundaneum.org/en) and historical diagrams (https://socks-studio.com/img/blog/mundaneum-03.jpg) are shared for deeper exploration of Otlet’s pre-digital information network.  
- Ring signatures for Bitcoin privacy are discussed via a blog post (https://reyify.com/blog/riddle), alongside the Mixmaster remailer protocol specification (IETF draft-sassaman-mixmaster-02) as tools for anonymous communication.  
- The Longevity Summer Camp is noted as already sold out, prompting criticism of the “commit months in advance” norm for events, framed as generating unnecessary waste and administrative overhead.