Glut : mastering information through the ages / Alex Wright.

By: Wright, Alex, 1966-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2007Description: viii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780309102384; 0309102383Subject(s): Information organization -- History | Information storage and retrieval systems -- History | Information society -- HistoryDDC classification: 020.9 LOC classification: Z666.5 | .W75 2007
Contents:
1. Networks and hierarchies -- 2. Family trees and the tree of life -- 3. The Ice Age information explosion -- 4. The age of alphabets -- 5. Illuminating the Dark Age -- 6. A steam engine of the mind -- 7. The astral power station -- 8. The encyclopedic revolution -- 9. The moose that roared -- 10. The industrial library -- 11. The Web that wasn't -- 12. Memories of the future -- Appendix A. John Wilkins's universal categories -- Appendix B. Thomas Jefferson's 1783 catalog of books -- Appendix C. The Dewey decimal system -- Appendix D. S.R. Ranganathan's colon classification.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-269) and index.

1. Networks and hierarchies -- 2. Family trees and the tree of life -- 3. The Ice Age information explosion -- 4. The age of alphabets -- 5. Illuminating the Dark Age -- 6. A steam engine of the mind -- 7. The astral power station -- 8. The encyclopedic revolution -- 9. The moose that roared -- 10. The industrial library -- 11. The Web that wasn't -- 12. Memories of the future -- Appendix A. John Wilkins's universal categories -- Appendix B. Thomas Jefferson's 1783 catalog of books -- Appendix C. The Dewey decimal system -- Appendix D. S.R. Ranganathan's colon classification.

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