Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age

There is too much culture for culture to have manners, method or modulation. Things don’t cohere. They don’t line up in the beautiful diffusion waves running vividly in from the margin. This means it’s much harder to figure what and when culture will reach us. No more taking a position in the diffusion stream, as an innovator, early adopter, or lat

the equivalent of 140,000 Library of Congress collections.1 Growth

clever people sought to measure, in data bits, the amount of information produced in