ISBN: 9780300209525

Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950… Mehr…

Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights promised by Rorschach tests and other innovative scientific protocols. Kaplan, along with anthropologist A. I. Hallowell and a team of researchers, sought out a varied range of non-European subjects--among remote and non-literate peoples around the globe and elsewhere. Recording their dreams, stories, and innermost thoughts in a vast database, Kaplan envisioned future researchers accessing the data through the cutting-edge Readex machine. Almost immediately, however, technological developments and the obsolescence of the theoretical framework rendered the project irrelevant, and eventually it was forgotten. In a scrupulously researched and captivating new book, Rebecca Lemov recounts the story of Kaplan's quest and brings to light an informative and disturbing chapter in the prehistory of Big Data. Media >, [PU: Yale University Press]<

ISBN: 9780300209525

Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950… Mehr…

Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights promised by Rorschach tests and other innovative scientific protocols. Kaplan, along with anthropologist A. I. Hallowell and a team of researchers, sought out a varied range of non-European subjects--among remote and non-literate peoples around the globe and elsewhere. Recording their dreams, stories, and innermost thoughts in a vast database, Kaplan envisioned future researchers accessing the data through the cutting-edge Readex machine. Almost immediately, however, technological developments and the obsolescence of the theoretical framework rendered the project irrelevant, and eventually it was forgotten. In a scrupulously researched and captivating new book, Rebecca Lemov recounts the story of Kaplan's quest and brings to light an informative and disturbing chapter in the prehistory of Big Data. Media >, [PU: Yale University Press]<

2015, ISBN: 9780300209525

Yale University Press, Hardcover, Auflage: Cloth/dust jacket Octavo, 384 Seiten, Publiziert: 2015-11-24T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780300209525, 0.68 kg, Verkaufsran… Mehr…

Yale University Press, Hardcover, Auflage: Cloth/dust jacket Octavo, 384 Seiten, Publiziert: 2015-11-24T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780300209525, 0.68 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1306465, Anthropology & Sociology, Medical, Legal & Social Sciences, Biography, Subjects, Books, Psychology & Psychiatry, Health, Family & Lifestyle, History, Reference, Engineering & Technology, Science, Nature & Maths, History of Science, History & Philosophy, Archaeology, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Social & Cultural, Cultural Studies, Yale University Press, 2015<