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Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
Alex Wright
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Description for Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 46 b/w. BIC Classification: 1DDB; 3JJG; BGH; BGT; GL; KNTX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 28. Weight in Grams: 482.
In 1934, a Belgian entrepreneur named Paul Otlet sketched out plans for a worldwide network of computers--or "electric telescopes," as he called them -- that would allow people anywhere in the world to search and browse through millions of books, newspapers, photographs, films and sound recordings, all linked together in what he termed a réseau mondial: a "worldwide web." Today, Otlet and his visionary proto-Internet have been all but forgotten, thanks to a series of historical misfortunes -- not least of which involved the Nazis marching into Brussels and destroying most of his life's work. In the years since Otlet's ... Read more
In 1934, a Belgian entrepreneur named Paul Otlet sketched out plans for a worldwide network of computers--or "electric telescopes," as he called them -- that would allow people anywhere in the world to search and browse through millions of books, newspapers, photographs, films and sound recordings, all linked together in what he termed a réseau mondial: a "worldwide web." Today, Otlet and his visionary proto-Internet have been all but forgotten, thanks to a series of historical misfortunes -- not least of which involved the Nazis marching into Brussels and destroying most of his life's work. In the years since Otlet's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199931415
SKU
V9780199931415
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About Alex Wright
Alex Wright is Director of User Experience and Product Research at The New York Times and the author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages.
Reviews for Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
The index is excellent, of a quality rarely seen nowadays
Library & Information History, J.H. Bowman
Meticulously researched.
Philip Ball, Nature
A remarkable read in its entirety, not only in illuminating history but in extracting from it a beacon for the future.
Brain Pickings
An excellent study of a Belgian, Paul Otlet, who in ... Read more
Library & Information History, J.H. Bowman
Meticulously researched.
Philip Ball, Nature
A remarkable read in its entirety, not only in illuminating history but in extracting from it a beacon for the future.
Brain Pickings
An excellent study of a Belgian, Paul Otlet, who in ... Read more