Book
Glut : mastering information through the ages
Publication Information
Washington, DC : Joseph Henry Press, c2007.
Physical Description
viii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
- Networks and hierarchies
- Family trees and the tree of life
- The ice age information explosion
- The age of alphabets
- Illuminating the dark age
- A steam engine of the mind
- The astral power station
- The encyclopedic revolution
- The moose that roared
- The industrial library
- The Web that wasn't
- Memories of the future.