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100 1 $aGleick, James.
245 14 $aThe information :$ba history, a theory, a flood /$cJames Gleick.
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260 $aNew York, NY :$bPantheon Books,$cc2011.
300 $a526 p. :$bill., ports. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 429-503) and index.
520 $aThe author of the books Chaos and Genius, now brings us a chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality, the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood talking drums of Africa, he tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the brilliant and doomed daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself. And then the information age arrives. Citizens of this world become experts willy nilly, aficionados of bits and bytes. And we sometimes feel we are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading.
505 0 $aDrums that talk -- The 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.
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