Here is the link to my thesis at the Polytechnic of Turin: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XK-1gfufSSC4XQlNhdPl-Ij-WkQjkOj/view?usp=drive_link

Summary

1 Humanity: A Single Data Processing System
1.1 Data and Information
1.2 Processing Information: An Evolutionary Advantage
1.3 The Fourth Revolution
1.4 Infosphere: An Expanding Universe of Data
1.5 Data Visualization

2 Quantifying the World
2.1 The First Artificial Memory Systems
2.2 The Advent of Writing
2.3 Measuring Reality
2.4 Visualizing Models of Reality
2.4.1 Data Maps
2.4.2 Time Series
2.4.3 Space-Time Narrative Graphics
2.4.4 Relational Graphs
2.4.5 Isotype
2.5 ICT and Small Data

3 Hyperhistory: Dependence on Data
3.1 Information Society
3.2 An Artificially Alive “Onlife” World
3.3 Enveloping the World
3.4 Internet of Things
3.5 Big Data
3.6 A Framework imperfect but useful
3.7 Let data speak
3.8 A non-competitive asset
3.9 Dataism: the dictatorship of data
3.10 A common language between man and machine

4 A visual and augmented universe
4.1 Postcinema
4.2 An archive of stories and narratives
4.3 The future of visualization