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History of Information (COG SCI) C103 Berkeley

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This course explores the history of information and associated technologies, uncovering why we think of ours as "the information age." We will select moments in the evolution of production, recording, and storage from the earliest writing systems to the world of Short Message Service (SMS) and blogs. In every instance, we'll be concerned with both what and when and how and why, and we will keep returning to the question of technological determinism: how do technological developments affect society and vice versa?

Resources: OpenCourseware from UC Berkeley, MIT, Stanford along with many of the World's finest University's.

Language: English

Units: 23

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Lec 1 Introduction
Lec 2 talking about information
Lec 3 where are we going?
Lec 4 Age of Writing Systems
Lec 5 what follows writing?
Lec 6 Manuscript culture
Lec 7 Print Culture
Lec 8 17th-18th c Technology
Lec 9 Scientific info & medical knowledge
Lec 10 information work
Lec 11 Strategies for dealing w/ information overload
Lec 12 Organization of Knowledge
Lec 15 telephone & telegraph
Lec 16 beyond informing
Lec 17
Lec 18 Impact of Photography
Lec 20 Radio & Television
Lec 21 advent of the computer
Lec 23 Storaage & Search
Lec 24 Disintermediation, Dematerialization, Disaggregation & other Disruption
Lec 25 The Internet: Social Effects
Lec 26 Social Implications II
Lec 27 Virtual Pollution

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