Glut Mastering Information Through the Ages

Name: Glut Mastering Information Through the Ages
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ISBN: 9780801475092

ISBN-10: 0801475090

ISBN-13: 9780801475092

Edition: 2008

Authors: Alex Wright

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The "information explosion" may seem like an acutely modern phenomenon, but we are not the first generation-or even the first species-to wrestle with the problem of information overload. Long before the advent of computers, human beings were collecting, storing, and organizing information: from Ice Age taxonomies to Sumerian archives, Greek libraries to Dark Age monasteries. Spanning disciplines from evolutionary theory and cultural anthropology to the history of books, libraries, and computer science, Alex Wright weaves an intriguing narrative that connects such seemingly far-flung topics as insect colonies, Stone Age jewelry, medieval monasteries, Renaissance encyclopedias, early computer…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.09" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction



Networks and Hierarchies



Family Trees and the Tree of Life



The Ice Age Information Explosion



The Age of Alphabets



Illuminating the Dark Age



A Steam Engine of the Mind



The Astral Power Station



The Encyclopedic Revolution



The Moose That Roared



The Industrial Library



The Web That Wasn't



Memories of the Future


Appendixes



John Wilkins's Universal Categories



Thomas Jefferson's 1783 Catalog of Books



The Dewey Decimal System



S. R. Ranganathan's Colon Classification


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index