Roopika Risam
Praise for Data Empire
From the earliest inscriptions, through the record-keeping of the Han dynasty or the Domesday book, to the modern world of the internet and AI, Risam demonstrates how data has both controlled and liberated us and ...
Professor Lewis Dartnell, author of Being Human
This brilliant, readable book offers a striking new historical perspective on accountants and number-crunchers, demonstrating the extent to which data has shaped and controlled people’s lives across centur ...
Professor Corinne Fowler, author of Our Island Stories
A timely and ambitious history of humanity’s oldest technology: keeping track. For millennia, humans have counted and recorded the world—first with pebbles, notched bones, and cave art, later with ledgers, censuses, ...
Brooke N. Newman, author of The Crown’s Silence
From the earliest inscriptions, through the record-keeping of the Han dynasty or the Domesday book, to the modern world of the internet and AI, Risam demonstrates how data has both controlled and liberated us and ...
Professor Lewis Dartnell, author of Being Human
This brilliant, readable book offers a striking new historical perspective on accountants and number-crunchers, demonstrating the extent to which data has shaped and controlled people’s lives across centur ...
Professor Corinne Fowler, author of Our Island Stories
A timely and ambitious history of humanity’s oldest technology: keeping track. For millennia, humans have counted and recorded the world—first with pebbles, notched bones, and cave art, later with ledgers, censuses, ...
Brooke N. Newman, author of The Crown’s Silence
From the earliest inscriptions, through the record-keeping of the Han dynasty or the Domesday book, to the modern world of the internet and AI, Risam demonstrates how data has both controlled and liberated us and ...
Professor Lewis Dartnell, author of Being Human
This brilliant, readable book offers a striking new historical perspective on accountants and number-crunchers, demonstrating the extent to which data has shaped and controlled people’s lives across centur ...
Professor Corinne Fowler, author of Our Island Stories
A timely and ambitious history of humanity’s oldest technology: keeping track. For millennia, humans have counted and recorded the world—first with pebbles, notched bones, and cave art, later with ledgers, censuses, ...
Brooke N. Newman, author of The Crown’s Silence