{"product_id":"database-of-dreams-rebecca-lemov-9780300209525","title":"Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn acclaimed science historian uncovers the fascinating story of a \"lost\" project to unlock humanity's common denominator that prefigured the emergence of Big Data\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca Lemov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300209525\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300209525\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2015","brand":"Rebecca Lemov","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43913605087487,"sku":"9780300209525","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_15d0834b-f1fc-4b59-b5a6-91d4f292a7df.jpg?v=1680621319","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/database-of-dreams-rebecca-lemov-9780300209525","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}