Az információtörténelem mint "big history"
Information history as big history

Summary/Abstract: When talking about „Information Revolutions” in World History, there is no answer from the technological deterministic approach to a simple question: whether a structural change in the tools and eff ectiveness of information management is a cause or a consequence of great socioeconomic transformations. In this article we propose to analyze the all-time information culture in the context of environmental challenges to build solid foundation to comparative history research. We highlight information anthropology basics: the cyclic nature of information, isolating its representation, processing and action output stages, applying the information stock-fl ow model. Using this conceptual framework, we can approach the World History using bigger and bigger time-series, coupling with diff erent theories of Big History. The information anthropology point of view seems to be valid and operative dealing with the whole, two hundred thousand years history of homo sapiens and the more than two million years prehistory of hominids. And what is more, we can talk about the zoo-history of information, since the birth of information behavior was emerging only in the given point of the development of living systems.

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