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Informaticathe updated edition of Alex Wright''s previously published Glutcontinues 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 generationor even the first speciesto 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.

Wright weaves a narrative that connects such seemingly far-flung topics as insect colonies, Stone Age jewelry, medieval monasteries, Renaissance encyclopedias, early computer networks, and the World Wide Web. He suggests that the future of the information age may lie deep in our cultural past.

We stand at a precipice struggling to cope with a tsunami of data. Wright provides some much-needed historical perspect

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    A Paperback / softback by Alex Wright

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 15 June 2023
      ISBN-13 9781501768675
      978-1501768675
      ISBN-10 1501768670
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      History of education Media studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Informaticathe updated edition of Alex Wright''s previously published Glutcontinues 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 generationor even the first speciesto 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.

      Wright weaves a narrative that connects such seemingly far-flung topics as insect colonies, Stone Age jewelry, medieval monasteries, Renaissance encyclopedias, early computer networks, and the World Wide Web. He suggests that the future of the information age may lie deep in our cultural past.

      We stand at a precipice struggling to cope with a tsunami of data. Wright provides some much-needed historical perspect

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