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
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.
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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.
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