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Informatica : mastering information through the ages / Alex Wright

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2023

xiii, 268 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

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 -- Information as "Science" -- The Web that Wasn't -- Memories of The Future.

"Hardcover edition originally published as Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages 2007 by Joseph Henry Press"--ECIP title page verso. - Includes bibliographical references and index

2305

Erscheint auch als: Wright, Alex, 1966- : Glut. - Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, ©2007 (Revision of)

Erscheint auch als: Wright, Alex, 1966- : Informatica. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-5017-6867-5 (paperback)

978-1-5017-6868-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 978-1-5017-6869-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2022059688

OCoLC: 1381691855     

SR 800      Ähnliche Literatur

Z666.5

303.48/3309

LOC-SH: Information organization -- History ; Information storage and retrieval systems -- History ; Information society -- History ; Internet -- History

"A history of the information age, surveying major developments in the evolution of knowledge organization from pre-history to the early 1990s, culminating in the advent of the commercial Internet. Topics covered include the evolution of knowledge organization in oral cultures, writing and printing, libraries and archives, and early hypertext systems"--