Why Data Has Always Been Big
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Claims that information overload is modern give way to concrete continuity: Mesopotamian clay tablets commodify records, Alexandria acquires books by seizing ship cargoes and creates a vast, disorganized store, a Benedictine team builds a full Biblical concordance and invents strict alphabetical order, Gutenberg’s press makes paper cheap so scholars compile notes and encyclopedias, Herman Hollerith builds a punch‑card tabulator that halves the 1890 census time and becomes IBM, and today Cassandra/ Hadoop/ MongoDB repeat the same scaling solutions.
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