Today's Facts

Understanding the Current Evolution of Information

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Today's Facts

Understanding the Current Evolution of Information

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This is the third and final volume in a broad study about the role of information largely in the Unites States since the early nineteenth century. This book summarizes how information changed since the early 1800s, what it looks like today, including how it is being influenced by such current circumstances as the role of Big Data, artificial intelligence, misinformation on the Internet, and the automation of decision-making by computers using digital and analog information. It is designed to be read by scholars in multiple disciplines and by the general public. It is the byproduct of 30 years of studying the modern role of information. The book includes a broad curated bibliographic essay about the broad subject of modern information.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Learning From the History of Information

2. How Information and Computers Changed Work

3. Do We Live in an Information Age?

4. The Rise of Big Data

5. How Factual Is Information and Why We Should Care

6. A Way to Look at Information Today

7. The Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence

Bibliographic Essay

Index

Product details

Published Jan 29 2025
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 288
ISBN 9798881804732
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 4 b/w illustrations; 3 b/w photos; 4 tables
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

James W. Cortada

James W. Cortada is a Senior Research Fellow at th…

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