Information : A Historical Companion (True ePUB)

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Engpsh | 2021 | ISBN: 0691179549 | 904 Pages | True ePUB | 50 MB

A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries

Thanks to modern technological advances, we now enjoy seemingly unpmited access to information. Yet how did information become so central to our everyday pves, and how did its processing and storage make our data-driven era possible? This volume is the first to consider these questions in comprehensive detail, tracing the global emergence of information practices, technologies, and more, from the premodern era to the present. With entries spanning archivists to algorithms and scribes to surveilpng, this is the ptimate reference on how information has shaped and been shaped by societies.