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The information : a history, a theory, a flood
- Title
- The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick.
- Author
- Gleick, James.
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JBE 16-677 | Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 11-2292 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 526 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He also provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information, including Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and Claude Shannon.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-503) and index.
- Contents
- Drums that talk -- Persistence of the word -- Two wordbooks -- To throw the powers of thought into wheel-work -- A nervous system for the Earth -- New wires, new logic -- Information theory -- The informational turn -- Entropy and its demons -- Life's own code -- Into the meme pool -- The sense of randomness -- Information is physical -- After the flood -- New news every day.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-2292
- ISBN
- 9780375423727
- 0375423729
- LCCN
- 2010023221
- OCLC
- 2010023221
- Author
- Gleick, James.
- Title
- The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick.
- Imprint
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-503) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-2292JBE 16-677