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Database of Dreams
Rebecca Maura Lemov
其他書名
The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
出版
Yale University Press
, 2015-01-01
主題
Psychology / Ethnopsychology
Science / History
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
0300209525
9780300209525
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WmHdCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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 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.