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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick

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#92 of 3,809 books · #6 in Science & Technology

Won the Royal Society Science Book Prize (2012) and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2012). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 3 other awards.

From the bestselling author of Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. The Information won the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, and a Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780307379573
Topics
Information theoryHistory of communicationDigital age
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