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Database of Dreams
Rebecca Lemov
其他書名
The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
出版Yale University Press, 2015-11-24
主題Science / HistoryPsychology / EthnopsychologyScience / Cognitive ScienceComputers / History
ISBN03002166459780300216646
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8iLYCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 and other innovative scientific protocols. Kaplan, along with anthropologist A. I. Hallowell and a team of researchers, sought out a varied range of non-European subjects among remote and largely non-literate peoples around the globe. Recording their dreams, stories, and innermost thoughts in a vast database, Kaplan envisioned future researchers accessing the data through the cutting-edge Readex machine. Almost immediately, however, technological developments and the obsolescence of the theoretical framework rendered the project irrelevant, and eventually it was forgotten.