Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
Rebecca Lemov • Yale University Press • ISBN-13 978‑0300216646
Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
Rebecca Lemov • Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300216645 · ISBN-13: 978‑0300216646 · 2015
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Rebecca Lemov examines the mid-twentieth-century efforts of social scientists to create a universal database of human experience. By tracing the ambitious, often flawed attempts to quantify culture and behavior through projects like the Harvard Laboratory of Social Relations, the book reveals how these early data-driven initiatives prefigured the digital surveillance and algorithmic categorization of the modern era.
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