Alex Wright, "Informatica: Mastering Information through the Ages"
English | ISBN: 1501768670 | 2023 | 282 pages | PDF | 19 MB
English | ISBN: 1501768670 | 2023 | 282 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Informatica―the updated edition of Alex Wright's previously published Glut―continues the journey through the history of the information age to show how information systems emerge. Today's "information explosion" may seem like a 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 Christian monasteries.
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