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Description of  Informatica: Mastering Information through the Ages

Informaticathe updated edition of Alex Wright's previously published Glutcontinues the journey through the history of the information age to show how information systems emerge. Today's "information explosion" may seem like a modern phenomenon, but we are not the first generationor even the first speciesto wrestle with the problem of information overload. Long before the advent of computers, human beings were collecting, storing, and organizing information: from Ice Age taxonomies to Sumerian archives, Greek libraries to Christian monasteries. Read more