Ann Blair
Ann Blair is a history professor at Harvard University. She has written two books and co-edited three volumes on the history of information. Her second book, Too Much to Know, was named Outstanding Academic Title of 2011 by Choice. In 2002 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, otherwise known as a “genius grant”
Books by Ann Blair
Too Much To Know
by Ann Blair
It forces us to question the self-pitying sense in which we think we are more deluged by information than anyone was ever before
Interviews with Ann Blair
The best books on The History of Information, recommended by Ann Blair
The history professor and author of Too Much to Know tells us what researchers have been discovering about how earlier human societies collected, organised and used information
Interviews where books by Ann Blair were recommended
The best books on The History of Reading, recommended by Leah Price
We can learn about the past not just through what was written but how it was read. Historian of books Leah Price tells us about reading aloud in Roman times, Gutenberg-era marginalia, and Middle Age solutions to information overload
