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The Information : A History, A Theory , A Flood

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Fourth Estate 2012Description: 526 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780007225743
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 020.9 GLE-I
Summary: James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era\'s defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code. In The Information James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the \'bit\', it is a fascinating account of the modern age\'s defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives.
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James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era\'s defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code. In The Information James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the \'bit\', it is a fascinating account of the modern age\'s defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives.

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