History C192: History of Information (Spring 2012, UC Berkeley): Lecture 01

History C192: History of Information

History C192: History of Information (Spring 2012, UC Berkeley). Instructors: Professor Geoffrey Nunberg and Professor Paul Duguid. 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? The course is also listed as Cognitive Science C103.

Lecture 01 - Introduction

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Lecture 01 - Introduction

Lecture 02 - Talking about Information: The Age of Information and the Information Revolution

Lecture 03 - Technological Determinism

Lecture 04 - The First Information Technology: Writing Systems

Lecture 05 - What Follows from Writing?

Lecture 06 - Manuscript Culture

Lecture 07 - Print Revolution

Lecture 08 - Scientific Revolution

Lecture 09 - The Emergence of the Public

Lecture 10 - The Organization of Knowledge