|
|
Product Description
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.
Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. 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. 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.
A New York Times Notable Book
A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year
Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
- Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
- Chaos: Making a New Science
- Information: A Very Short Introduction
- Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
- The Battle for God
- The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
- A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
- Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
*If this is not the "The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Sep 13, 2024 00:32 +08.
