The Information
A History, a Theory, a Flood
By James Gleick
"The Information" was published by Knopf Doubleday Pub. Group in 2011 - New York, it has 416 pages and the language of the book is English.
“The Information” Metadata:
- Title: The Information
- Author: James Gleick
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 416
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Pub. Group
- Publish Date: 2011
- Publish Location: New York
“The Information” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ 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
- People: ➤ Claude Shannon - Charles Babbage (1791-1871) - Ada Byron - Samuel Morse - Alan Turing - Stephen Hawking - Richard Dawkins - John Archibald Wheele
Edition Specifications:
- Format: [electronic resource] :
- Pagination: 1 online resource (416 p.) :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL25570591M - OL15586927W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 707742879 - 868832462
- ISBN-13: 9780307379573
- ISBN-10: 0307379574
- All ISBNs: 0307379574 - 9780307379573
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"The Information" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Drums that talk
- 2- Persistence of the word
- 3- Two wordbooks
- 4- To throw the powers of thought into wheel-work
- 5- A nervous system for the Earth
- 6- New wires, new logic
- 7- Information theory
- 8- The informational turn
- 9- Entropy and its demons
- 10- Life's own code
- 11- Into the meme pool
- 12- The sense of randomness
- 13- Information is physical
- 14- After the flood
- 15- New news every day.
"The Information" Description:
The Open Library:
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.
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