![]() ![]() From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the bit, it is a fascinating account of the modern ages defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives. ![]() ![]() 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. In The Information James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. 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. James Gleick, the doyen of science writing and the author of the hugely successful Chaos as well as biographies of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton, reviews the history of humanity through the. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. ![]() From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory.Īcclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. ![]()
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