The Information
Subtitle: A History, a Theory, a Flood
By: James Gleick
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed., 2012.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9781400096237
Subjects: Information theory; Information technology; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-503) and index.