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THE INFORMATION by JAMES GLEICK +AUDIO+ +TS+
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- 9780307914989
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James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality-the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the brilliant and doomed daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself.And then the information age arrives. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And we sometimes feel we are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Westminster Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0307914984
ISBN-13
9780307914989
eBay Product ID (ePID)
123146600
Product Key Features
Topic
General
Book Title
Information : a History, a Theory, a Flood
Language
English
Genre
Computers, Science
Format
Compact Disc
Dimensions
Item Length
6.7in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Width
6.7in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
22
Number of Volumes
15 Vols.
Dewey Decimal
020.9
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
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