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| A New York TimesNotable Book A Los Angeles Timesand Cleveland Plain DealerBest Book of the Year From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaosand Geniuscomes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer 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. 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. The author of the bestsellers "Chaos" and "Genius" presents 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. | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| ISBN-10 | 1400096235 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781400096237 |
| Key Details | |
| Author | James Gleick |
| Number Of Pages | 544 pages |
| Series | Vintage Ser. |
| Format | Paperback |
| Publication Date | 2012-03-06 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Additional Details | |
| Copyright Date | 2012 |
| Illustrated | Yes |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 18 Oz |
| Height | 1.1 In. |
| Width | 5.2 In. |
| Length | 8 In. |
| Target Audience | |
| Group | Trade |
| Classification Method | |
| LCCN | 2012-371524 |
| LC Classification Number | Z665.G547 2012 |
| Dewey Decimal | 020.9 |
| Dewey Edition | 22 |
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