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The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0375423729 (hc)
- ISBN: 9780375423727 (hc)
- Physical Description: 526 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-503) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Drums that talk -- The 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 -- Epilogue. |
| Awards Note: | National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Nonfiction, 2011. |
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| Subject: | Information science > History Information society |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Paisley Branch Library | 020.9 GLE (Text) | 37620000697419 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Baker County Library | 020.9 .G556i (Text) | 37814002594647 | NON-FICTION | Available | - | ||
| Sherman County Public/School Library | 020.9 GLE (Text) | 37039000021027 | NON-FICTION | Available | - | ||
| Treasure Valley Community College Library | 020.9 G481in (Text) | 32220001085170 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
