Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity

by Rebecca Lemov

Book Overview

An acclaimed science historian uncovers the fascinating story of a "lost" project to unlock humanity's common denominator that prefigured the emergence of Big Data

Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights promised by Rorschach tests...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300209525
• ISBN13: 9780300209525
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"