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索引的演化是微觀的人類閱讀史;
Google、ChatGPT等人工智慧的密碼,
索引承載著圖書的導航作用,它的出現對知識利用產生巨大改變;
數位搜尋時代,google大神依賴的正是索引的功能;
索引組織與便利我們的生活,將個人的想法與整個世界串連在一起。
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想要快速理解一本書或引用某本書中的某段話,該怎麼做?
食譜、法規或學術期刊,使用者如何迅速找到需要的內容?
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答案就是「索引」。
索引改變線性閱讀的知識體系,提升使用書本的效率;
製作索引是人類對世界進行組織以辨別與利用事物的行為。
本書細數索引的前世今生,從十三世紀歐洲修道院和大學,
知名作家吳爾芙、波普、格斯納都曾是編纂索引的人,
儘管當前的資訊文化建立在機器代替人類閱讀,
˙索引出現於西元十三世紀早期,
˙第一套完整的索引誕生於一二三○年巴黎的聖經中;
˙除了介紹語言、文化和歷史,也大量連結現代生活。
˙展望未來,
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◎看來小眾又深奧的主題,但在鄧肯手中,索引變成一個小小奇蹟。
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◎鄧肯探究索引的起源,令人耳目一新又顛覆觀點,
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