Geography's Quantitative Revolutions Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War Origins of Big Data |
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| Author:
| Wyly, Elvin |
| ISBN: | 978-1-949199-08-6 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2019 |
| Publisher: | West Virginia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $168.30 |
Book Description:
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Traces the recent history of geography, information, and technology through the biography of Edward A. Ackerman, an important figure in geography's ""quantitative revolution"". The book argues that Ackerman's work helped encode the hidden logics of a distorted philosophical heritage into the network architectures of surveillance capitalism.
Traces the recent history of geography, information, and technology through the biography of Edward A. Ackerman, an important figure in geography's ""quantitative revolution"". The book argues that Ackerman's work helped encode the hidden logics of a distorted philosophical heritage into the network architectures of surveillance capitalism.