The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick.
Gleick, James.
2011
Z665 .G547 2011 (Mapit)
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Title The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick.
Author Gleick, James.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780375423727
0375423729
Publication Details New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.
Language English
Description 526 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number Z665 .G547 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 020.9
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, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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