The Information

A History, a Theory, a Flood

by James Gleick

[electronic resource] :, 416 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2011 by Knopf Doubleday Pub. Group.

ISBN:: 978-0-307-37957-3
OCLC Number:: 707742879

(8 reviews)

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.

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Nonya Bidniss reviewed The Information by James Gleick

The Information by James Gleick

3 stars

A good book if you want to know everything about information from the concept of information to the history & development of theories and technologies. A real soup to nuts book. One of the key things I learned is that information theory and all that goes into it is just not of interest to me. (shrug) But if you're into it, I bet you'll really like this book.