TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - The information :a history, a theory, a flood /
DA  - c2011.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Gleick, James.
ET  - 1st ed.
CN  - Z665
CN  - Z665
PB  - Pantheon Books,
PP  - New York :
PY  - c2011.
ID  - 352824
KW  - Information science
KW  - Information society.
SN  - 9780375423727
SN  - 0375423729
TI  - The information :a history, a theory, a flood /
ER  -