The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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.
GenresInformation scienceHistoryInformation society
526 pages, 2 editions
English edition · First published 2011 by Pantheon Books · ISBN 9780375423727
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- The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood · Pantheon Books · 2011 · ISBN 9780375423727 · 1 reader This page
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- The Information · Companhia das Letras · 2013 · ISBN 9788535922660
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