Georges Anderla

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Georges Anderla (born March 27, 1921 in Prague as Jiři Anderla , † April 26, 2005 in Antibes ) was a French economist and statistician .

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Georges Anderla graduated at the Columbia University New York for MA and doctorate for Ph.D. In the 1970s and 1980s he taught as a professor at the Institute for Political Studies of the Sorbonne Paris and at the Universities of Prague and Aix-en-Provence . He also worked for government organizations such as the OECD and was Director of Information Management at the General Directorate of the Commission of the European Community in Luxembourg.

During his work for the OECD in the 1970s, Anderla investigated the pace at which human knowledge is developing. He presented his results in 1974 in his work The growth of scientific and technical information. A challenge . He concluded that knowledge from year 1 to 1500 had roughly doubled. According to Anderla's model, further doublings took place up to 1750 (i.e. after 250 years) and until 1900 (after another 150 years). According to later research by Anderla, there was further duplication of knowledge up to 1950 (after 50 years), 1960 (after 10 years), 1967 (after 7 years) and 1973 (after 6 years). As a result, human knowledge in 1973 would be about 128 times greater than in year 1.

The research of Anderla was taken up and continued by several scientists. According to the science philosopher Robert Anton Wilson , knowledge doubled every eighteen months in the 1990s.

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Books

  • Trends and prospects of Latin-American tourism. Intern. Inst. Of Scientific Travel Res., Geneva 1953.
  • Tendences et perspectives du tourisme latino-americain vers l'Europe. Inst. Intern. de Recherches sur le Tourisme, Geneva 1953.
  • with René Hardy: Grand atlas de la France. Sélection du Readers digest, Paris 1970.
  • Information in 1985. A forecasting study of information needs and resources. OECD, Paris 1973, ISBN 92-64-11093-3 .
  • with Georgette Schmidt-Anderla: Dictionnaire des Affaires. Anglais - Français. Français - Anglais. Delmas, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-7034-0153-1 .
  • with Anthony Dunning: Computer strategies 1990–9. Technologies, Costs, Markets. Wiley, Chichester 1987.
  • with Anthony Dunning, Simon Forge: Chaotics. An agenda for business and society in the 21st century. Praeger, Westport, Conn. 1997, ISBN 0-275-95691-1 .
  • with Anthony Dunning: The age of asymmetry and paradox. Essays in comparative economics and sociology. Athena, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-84401-495-8 .

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  • La balance des paiements, les invisibles et le compte voyages. Études methodologiques. Univ. d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence 1971.
  • The growth of scientific and technical information. A challenge. In: Information. Science Assoc. ** 3. New York, NY, 1974, 3, pp. 1-56.
  • The European Communities' ideas about creating an information network in Europe (EURONET). In: News for Documentation. Hoppenstedt, Darmstadt 1975, 6, ISSN  0027-7436 , pp. 221-226.
  • Euronet and the changes on the European information scene. In: Second European Congress on Documentation Systems and Networks. Verl. Documentation, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7940-5163-7 , pp. 79-94.
  • with JH Petrie: The international data market. A background report. In: Transborder data flows. North-Holland, Amsterdam 1985, ISBN 0-444-87700-2 , pp. 259-318.
  • The problematic de l'Europe de l'information. In: Bulletin des bibliothèques de France. Ecole, Villeurbanne 1988, 1/2, ISSN  0006-2006 , pp. 10-19.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry Georges Anderla in the BnF catalog (French)
  2. ↑ Synopsis of the book The Age of Asymmetry and Paradox (English)
  3. ↑ Cliff Walker's interview with Robert Anton Wilson on KBOO-FM ( memento of the original from September 1, 2000 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.positiveatheism.org
personal data
SURNAME Anderla, Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderla, Jiři
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French economist and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2005
Place of death Antibes