Steven Wolfram and team have gathered together a big timeline of key events in the history of systematic data and computable knowledge. The team has created a beautiful infographic and a five foot long poster available for mail order (I just bought one) in anticipation of the Wolfram Data Summit in DC early next month. We're really at the dawn of a whole new age of data creation, and so this timeline will likely look like pre-history relatively soon, but it's fascinating and important none the less.
"[When] I first looked at the completed timeline, the first thing that struck me was how much two entities stood out in their contributions: ancient Babylon, and the United States government," Alfram writes. "[It] is sobering to see how long the road to where we are today has been. But it is exciting to see how much further modern technology has already made it possible for us to go."
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