The Evolution of Publishing Technology and Information Classification Systems

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400 years after Gutenberg, printing underwent little change until it became industrialized and mechanized. This revolutionized the process and led to a massive amount of published information, causing concern in the scholarly community on how to manage it. Figures like Paul Lutlay, Rankinathan, Charles Cutter, and Melville Dewey played a role in the development of modern library cataloging techniques.

Alex Wright is the Head of User Experience at Google News. He’s also an author, and his most recent book, Informatica, is the second edition of Glut, his deep history of the information age. In this conversation, we discuss the history of information technologies and why learning about it matters to people who work in tech.

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