Author : Rebecca Maura Lemov
Release : 2015-01-01
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 525/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Database of Dreams by : Rebecca Maura Lemov
Download or read book Database of Dreams written by Rebecca Maura Lemov. This book was released on 2015-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.... In a scrupulously researched and captivating new book, Rebecca Lemov recounts the story of Kaplan's quest and brings to light an informative and disturbing chapter in the prehistory of Big Data."--Dust jacket.
