The Information
Subtitle: A History, a Theory, a Flood
By: James Gleick
Edition: v3.1
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Pub. Group
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780307379573
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: History; Information science; Information society
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 and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Drums that talk; title: Persistence of the word; title: Two wordbooks; title: To throw the powers of thought into wheel-work; title: A nervous system for the Earth; title: New wires, new logic; title: Information theory; title: The informational turn; title: Entropy and its demons; title: Life's own code; title: Into the meme pool; title: The sense of randomness; title: Information is physical; title: After the flood; title: New news every day.