The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (551 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300167954 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 504 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Knowledge is power" and why Robert Johnston This is a big read and an important book. The author considers Information in the context of history, power, technology and modernity and consider the interrelationships and significances of Information as the crown jewel of human accomplishment.Black delivers a fascinating, well-written account of political, economic and technical Information as power using a 21st century Big Data lens to focus the evolution of man's desire for knowledge. Woods begins with written language through history's iterations of the present. Black speculates regarding the future trajectory.The book pulls you in. It gets you involved in topics. From the matt. I wish I liked this book Brad M. Martisius Okay, I haven't finished it yet. I know the author has an interesting, important point to make. Then again, I don't have to read very much to know that I don't want to finish it. I don't mind tough books. I have read & deeply enjoyed all of Edward Gibbon & Fyodor Dostoevsky. I love computer code & math. But I don't like academics. And this author wants more than anything else to show how smart he is, in that incredibly annoying academic way. Long sentences. Big words, Turgid phrases. Erudite name dropping. And of course, reams of political correctness. Here's a random example, from early in the book, addressing the Chinese voyages of. So many facts so little space In this book Mr. Black reviews the increase of knowledge worldwide over the past thousand years and its impact on the use of power in the world. The scope of the work is its great defect. At times one feels like he is reading a catalogue or an outline. Along the way we do get a good history of map making, printing, and electronic media and the impact they had on politics and empire around the world.
Leading historian Jeremy Black approaches global history from a distinctive perspective, focusing on the relationship between information and society and demonstrating how the understanding and use of information have been the primary factors in the development and character of the modern age. His cogent and well-reasoned analysis looks at cartography and the hardware of communication, armaments and sea power, mercantilism and imperialism, science and astronomy, as well as bureaucracy and the management of information, linking the history of technology with the history of global power while providing important indicators for the future of our world.. Black suggests that the West’s ascension was a dir
It is apposite that he should quote Sherlock Holmes on his brother Mycroft: 'All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.' Black is the Mycroft of historiography.”—Daniel Johnson, The Times. The Power of Knowledge is his 108th book. “He is the most industrious historian of all time