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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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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
2011, Knopf Doubleday Pub. Group
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0307379574 9780307379573
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
2011, Pantheon Books
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0375423729 9780375423727
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Table of Contents
Drums that talk
Persistence of the word
Two wordbooks
To throw the powers of thought into wheel-work
A nervous system for the Earth
New wires, new logic
Information theory
The informational turn
Entropy and its demons
Life's own code
Into the meme pool
The sense of randomness
Information is physical
After the flood
New news every day.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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