The Information
A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood begins with the tale of colonial European explorers and their fascination with African talking drums and their observed use to send complex and widely understood messages back and forth between villages far apart, and over even longer distances by relay. The book then covers informational implications of technologies from drum signaling to the long distance telephone.
Starting with symbolic written language, The Information examines the history of intellectual insights central to the development of information theory, detailing key figures responsible such as Claude Shannon, Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and John Archibald Wheeler.
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History, Information science, Information society, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Information, Informationssamhället, Informations- und Dokumentationswissenschaft, Informationsgesellschaft, Historia, Informationsvetenskap, Kommunikation, Kultur, Information theory, Information technology, nyt:e-book-nonfiction=2011-03-20, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Communication and technology, Information superhighway, Communication, Société informatisée, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Library & Information Science, General, INFORMATION SOCIETY, INFORMATION THEORY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, HISTORY, Information ScienceShowing 2 featured editions. View all 13 editions?
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
2011, Pantheon Books
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
2011, Knopf Doubleday Pub. Group
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0307379574 9780307379573
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