Olaf Breidbach
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Olaf Breidbach

Olaf Breidbach (1957-2014) was professor of History of Sciences at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and the director of the Institute for History of Medicine, Natural Science and Technology as well as head of the department for theoretical biology.

Olaf Breidbach (1957-2014) was professor of History of Sciences at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and the director of the Institute for History of Medicine, Natural Science and Technology as well as head of the department for theoretical biology.


PUBLICATIONS

New Orders of Knowledge
Year of Publication: 2008
Olaf BreidbachYear of Publication: 2008
We live in a society that primarily generates knowledge rather than material things. Culture, as the connection between all possible interactions in a human society, transforms this knowledge that has evolved over time. What criteria should we apply to measure knowledge and information, and to what extent should we distinguish between the two?


First of all, information is simply only...