Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity

By: Rebecca Lemov

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780300216646
Related ISBNs:: 9780300209525
Publisher:: Yale University Press
Date of Addition:: 04/13/19
Copyrighted By:: Rebecca Lemov
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Science, Computers and Internet, Psychology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.