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Author Gleick, James.

Title The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick
Edition First edition
Published New York : Pantheon Books, [2011]
©2011

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Description 526 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Drums 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
Summary From 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Information science -- History.
Information society.
LC no. 2010023221
ISBN 9780375423727
0375423729