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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Book by James Gleick
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in March 2011, which covers the genesis of the current information age. It was on The New York Times best-seller list for three weeks... Wikipedia
Originally published: March 1, 2011
Author: James Gleick
Pages: 544
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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 ...
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in March 2011, which covers the genesis of the ...
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His first book, Chaos: Making a New Science, an international best-seller, chronicled the development of chaos theory and made the Butterfly Effect a household ...
An invention even more profound and more fundamental came in a monograph spread across seventy-nine pages of The Bell System Technical. Journal in July and ...
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A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums to the invention of written ...
The book attempts to cover a huge swath of human history, from the invention of writing up to memes and our present internet-enabled information glut.
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James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation ...
Mar 20, 2011 · THE INFORMATION. A History. A Theory. A Flood. By James Gleick. Illustrated. 526 pp. Pantheon Books. $29.95.
Mar 6, 2012 · Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of ...
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Dec 10, 2013 · Author and journalist James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that, he claims ...
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