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100 1 $aGleick, James.
245 14 $aThe information :$ba history, a theory, a flood /$cJames Gleick.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$cc2011.
300 $a526 p. :$bill ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 429-503) and index.
505 0 $aDrums that talk -- Persistence of the word -- Two wordbooks -- To throw the powers of thought into wheel-work -- A nervous system for the Earth -- New wires, new logic -- Information theory -- The informational turn -- Entropy and its demons -- Life's own code -- Into the meme pool -- The sense of randomness -- Information is physical -- After the flood -- New news every day.
520 $aFrom the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He also provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information, including Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and Claude Shannon.
650 0 $aInformation science$xHistory.
650 0 $aInformation society.
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