Information A History, a Theory, a Flood

Name: Information A History, a Theory, a Flood
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ISBN: 9780375423727

ISBN-10: 0375423729

ISBN-13: 9780375423727

Edition: 2011

Authors: James Gleick

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James Gleick, the author of the bestsellersChaosandGeshy;nius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern erars"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 vanished as soon as it was born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talkshy;ing drums" of Africa, James Gleick 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 developshy;ment of our modern…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.508
Language: English

He wrote the worldwide bestseller Chaos, which was nominated for the National Book Award. He was the 1990 McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University.



Prologue



Drums 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


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index