Book ID: CBB001421267

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (2011)

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Gleick, James (Author)


Pantheon Books


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: 526 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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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Review Hobart, Michael E. (2014) Review of "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood". Technology and Culture (pp. 489-490). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Burke, Colin
Filippo Schiavio
Mark P. D. Burgess
Kronenfeld, Michael R.
Nicoletta Sabadini
Badia, Antonio
Concepts
Information technology
Information science
Information theory
Technology and society
Computers and computing
Methods of communication; media
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Switzerland
Germany
Europe
India
Institutions
Universität Stuttgart
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