The Web That Wasn't
March 27, 2007
I've just posted the slides from my IA Summit presentation via Slideshare:
The session seemed to go reasonably well. I'm glad to see there was an audience willing to turn out for a historically-focused session, helping to dispel my suspicion that the Information Architecture community - along with the rest of the tech industry - tends to suffer from a kind of myopic focus on the future.
The one thing missing from this version is a QuickTime video clip from Francoise Levie's documentary The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World; if anyone's interested, there's another version of the same clip available here.
File under: Informatics
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Mastering Information Through the Ages
“A penetrating and highly entertaining meditation on the information age and its historical roots.”
—Los Angeles Times
“A fascinating tour of the many ways that humans have collected, organized and shared information.”
—Publisher's Weekly
“A readable romp through the history of information processing, from the origins of writing to the emergence of libraries and finally the World Wide Web.”
—New Scientist
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