Excavating the Memory Palace: Arts of Visualization from the Agora to the Computer

by Seth Long

Book Overview

With the prevalence of smartphones, massive data storage, and search engines, we might think of today as the height of the information age. In reality, every era has faced its own challenges of storing, organizing, and accessing information. While they lacked digital devices, our ancestors, when faced with information overload, utilized some of the same techniques that underlie our modern interfaces: they visualized and spatialized data, tying it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022669514X
• ISBN13: 9780226695143
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"