Technologies of knowing
a proposal for the human sciences
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Word Count
52,500 words, Guess
Page Count
210 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL377515M
- ISBN-100807061069
- OCLC Control Number39640089
- OCLC Control Numbertechnologiesofkn00will
- Library of Congress Control Number98039526
and 2 more
- LibraryThing179968
- Goodreads1785697
Classifications
- DDC302
- LCCH61.8 .W55 1999
Description
In this age of ever more powerful computers, our ability to collect and spread knowledge is growing at an exponential rate. Far from liberating humanity, our "information exasperation," as John Willinsky describes it in this pathbreaking book, has made our ability to reach conclusions about the world around us all the more difficult. While some critics have condemned computers and the Internet for putting us in this age of overflow, and still others have praised them for their own sake, Willinsky takes a middle ground. Using the fictitious Automata Data Corporation as the vehicle for an ingenious thought experiment, he plays out what would happen if all information collected from social science research were centralized, catalogued, and processed by one company serving the public interest. Willinsky describes in great detail how such an entity could work to fulfill the promises of the human sciences and technology.
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