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- 1. The Deep History of the Information Age Alex Wright alex@agwright.com | www.alexwright.org
- 2. 油
- 3. Some people dismiss taxonomies as .... a kind of glorified stamp collecting. No view could be more false and more inappropriately arrogant. Taxonomies are reflections of human thought; they express our most fundamental concepts about the objects of our universe. - Stephen Jay Gould
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- 5. Cat
- 6. Mammal Cat
- 8. Animal Mammal Cat Tabby cat
- 9. Animal Mammal Cat Tabby cat Brown mackerel tabby domestic longhair
- 10. Animal Mammal Cat Tabby cat Brown mackerel tabby domestic longhair See also: Pets
- 11. Animalia Chordata Mammalia Carnivora Felidae Felis Catus Felis catus (Cat) Kingdom: Phylum: Class: Order: Family: Genus: Species:
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- 13. Laptop
- 15. Computer Personal computer Laptop
- 16. Computer Personal computer Laptop Apple laptop
- 17. Computer Personal computer Laptop Apple laptop Apple Macbook Pro
- 18. Computer Personal computer Laptop Apple laptop Apple Macbook Pro See also: Mobile devices
- 19. Source: Berlin Name Description Example 1 Unique Beginner Highest level of inclusion Animals 2 Life Form First order of division, always polytopic Mammals 3 Generic Psychologically primary Cat 4 Specific Secondary name, usually involving a qualifier Tabby cat 5 Varietal Most granular level of description Brown mackerel tabby domestic longhair 6 Affiliate class Horizontal or meta category Pets
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- 24. When gods are considered, genealogy becomes a means of understanding the cosmos. When mortals are considered, it becomes an encyclopedic framework. - Hobart and Schiffman
- 25. The Ice Age Information Explosion
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- 28. Symbol networks Externalized displays of trust Encoding status and social relationships A release from social proximity
- 29. The Age of Alphabets
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- 33. Alphabet networks Counting begets writing Birth of the knowledge bureau Schism between oral and literate cultures
- 34. cf. Ong Orality Literacy Additive Subordinative Aggregative Analytic Participatory Objective Situational Abstract
- 35. The Codex
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- 39. The codex Portable, reproducible Random access, pagination and indexing Early mass production techniques
- 40. Gutenberg
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- 43. Print networks Transition from hand-made manuscripts to standardized texts Rise of secular literacy Disruption of old institutional hierarchies
- 44. The Industrial Information Explosion
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- 48. Industrial knowledge networks Steam-powered printing presses fuel rapid proliferation of published literature Growing urban centers and public education creates growing demand for reading material Rise of large-scale classification systems
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- 51. Facebook
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- 57. Conclusions
- 58. Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages by Alex Wright http://alexwright.org/glut/
- 59. Questions?
- 60. Thank you Alex Wright alex@agwright.com | www.alexwright.org
Editor's Notes
- #3: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Selva_Lacandona.JPG Tzeltal-speaking tribes in Chiapas, Mexico
- #5: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Longhair_Tabby_JaJa.jpg
- #13: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MBP13Unibody.png
- #22: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:900-158_Ahnentafel_Herzog_Ludwig.jpg
- #24: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zuni_Pueblo2.jpg
- #27: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_bead.png
- #28: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lascaux_painting.jpg
- #30: Rooted in caudex - wood
- #31: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tableta_con_trillo.png
- #32: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Sumerian_26th_c_Adab.jpg
- #35: 敬艶
- #37: Roman de Troie, by permission of Biblioth竪que Nationale, Paris
- #38: Adam naming the animals from The Aberdeen Bestiary, c.1 by permission of University of Edinburgh 20D
- #39: Canon Table / by permission of Corpus Christi College
- #41: Role of technology and social change... networks and hierarchies.
- #42: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Printing_Press,_1829_woodcut_by_George_Baxter.jpg
- #43: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flugblatt-Luther-Thesen.jpg
- #44: cf. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
- #46: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koenig%27s_steam_press_-_1814.png
- #47: Public domain 19th century periodical covers - various
- #48: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Firestone_Library_Princeton_card_cat.jpg
- #49: Document nation - cf. ??
- #51: Personal photo, property of Alex Wright
- #52: Facebook - screenshot
- #54: Amazon screenshot
- #55: Amazon screenshot
- #56: Wikipedia screenshot
- #57: New York Times / Blogrunner screenshot
- #60: Semantic Web