The Bit and the Pendulum
Subtitle: How the New Physics of Information is Revolutionizing Science
Publisher: Wiley
Published: February 1, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780471321743
First sentence: Had it appeared two months later, the IBM advertisement in the February 1996 Scientific American would have been taken for an April Fools' joke.
Table of contents: title: Beam up the goulash; title: Machines and metaphors; title: Information is physical; title: The quantum and the computer; title: The computational cell; title: The computational brain; title: Consciousness and complexity; title: IGUSes; title: Quantum reality; title: From black holes to supermatter; title: The magical mystery theory; title: The bit and the pendulum