Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Study Guide - Carl Linnaeus, Denis Diderot
10 Jul 2014
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Order: having information is not enough, organizations makes sense of information. *denis diderot: took 27 years for diderot and his friends to comprise all human information into what we call encyclopedia. Problems: space, time (lag) i. e. new information being made all the time, new entries might need to made constantly, credibility(prejudice, preference) Carolus linnaeus: named animals and insects, this came from the idea that when you name things you gain power over them i. e. parents name you have power over you, and you name pets have power over them. Library: books were first sorted by size, stuffed wherever you could actually fit them. Invented a new schematic system using decimals: kind of the precursor for the gps system of the library. Issues: numbers are hierarchical by their very nature, systems go out of date, system is fixed, not much flexibility. Library congress: started to catalogue our tweets.
