The Complicated Evolution of Information, With Jim Cortada

Over the past 150 years, humanity has generated an unprecedented
amount and variety of information, surpassing the cumulative
knowledge of previous eras.  Rob and Jackie sat down with
Jim Cortada, a senior research fellow at the Charles Babbage
Institute at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities to talk
about how information shapes society.
Mentioned

Jim Cortada, Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information
Revolution Transformed Academic Research, Governments, and
Businesses, (Sandman Books, 2023).

 Sarah Lamdan, Data Cartels: The Companies That Control
and Monopolize Our Information, (Stanford University Press,
2022).

Related

David Moschella, “We Shouldn’t Ask Technologists To Be
Arbiters of ‘Truth’,” (ITIF, July 2023).