The ascent of information : Books, bits, genes, machines, and life's unending algorithm (Record no. 297420)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 80593087244
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 003.54
Item number SCH-A
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Scharf, Caleb
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The ascent of information : Books, bits, genes, machines, and life's unending algorithm
Statement of responsibility, etc. By Caleb Scharf
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Riverhead Books,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c 2021.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 340P.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Our eternal data --<br/>The burden of an idea --<br/>In sickness and in health --<br/>An ever more tangled bank --<br/>Genes, memes, and dreams --<br/>The information river --<br/>Life made machine --<br/>The great blending --<br/>A universe of dataomes.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. <br/>"Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we've failed to ask exactly why we're expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create-all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos-amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it's an organism that has evolved right alongside us. This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn't just something we produce; it's the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life. The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset, and to preserving the possibility of a human future"--
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Information theory. Human-computer interaction. Human-machine systems.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Book
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 23/09/2021   003.54 SCH-A DCB3937 28/09/2021 28/09/2021 Book