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000352824 1001_ $$aGleick, James.
000352824 24514 $$aThe information :$$ba history, a theory, a flood /$$cJames Gleick.
000352824 250__ $$a1st ed.
000352824 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPantheon Books,$$cc2011.
000352824 300__ $$a526 p. :$$bill. ;$$c25 cm.
000352824 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000352824 5050_ $$aDrums that talk -- Persistence of the word -- Two wordbooks -- To throw the powers of thought into wheel-work -- A nervous system for the Earth -- New wires, new logic -- Information theory -- The informational turn -- Entropy and its demons -- Life's own code -- Into the meme pool -- The sense of randomness -- Information is physical -- After the flood -- New news every day.
000352824 520__ $$aFrom 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.
000352824 650_0 $$aInformation science$$xHistory.
000352824 650_0 $$aInformation society.
000352824 85200 $$bgen$$hZ665$$i.G547$$i2011
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