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Database of dreams : the lost quest to catalog humanity
- Title
- Database of dreams : the lost quest to catalog humanity / Rebecca Lemov.
- Author
- Lemov, Rebecca M. (Rebecca Maura)
- Publication
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2015.
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- xii, 384 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-13063
- ISBN
- 9780300209525 (hardcover)
- 0300209525 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2015940162
- OCLC
- 910504195
- Author
- Lemov, Rebecca M. (Rebecca Maura), author.
- Title
- Database of dreams : the lost quest to catalog humanity / Rebecca Lemov.
- Publisher
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-13063