The Information
A History, a Theory, a Flood
(Sprache: Englisch)
James Gleick, the author of the bestseller CHAOS, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality-the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The information age is upon...
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James Gleick, the author of the bestseller CHAOS, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality-the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The information age is upon us, and citizens of this world have become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And they sometimes feel they are drowning, swept by a deluge of news and images, blogs and tweets. THE INFORMATION is the story of how we got here and where we are heading. It will transform readers' views on the subject.
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James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality-the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. 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 provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the poet's brilliant and doomed daughter, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself.An then the information age comes upon us.Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And they sometimes feel they are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading.
It will transform readers' view of its subject.James Gleick is our leading chronicler of science and modern technology. His first book, Chaos, a National Book Award finalist, has been translated into twenty-five languages. His best-selling biographies, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton, were short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize.
Autoren-Porträt von James Gleick
James Gleick ist Journalist, Essayist und Autor für die Themen Technologie und Wissenschaft. Sein Werk über die Geschichte der Chaos-Theorie und seine Biografie über den Quantenphysiker Richard Feynman waren weltweit Bestseller. Der Harvard-Absolvent arbeitet unter anderem für die New York Times.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James Gleick
- 2011, 526 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 15,4 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: HarperCollins UK
- ISBN-10: 000742311X
- ISBN-13: 9780007423118
Sprache:
Englisch
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"So ambitious, illuminating and sexily theoretical that it will amount to aspirational reading for many of those who have the mettle to tackle it..."The Information" is to the nature, history and significance of data what the beach is to sand." -"New York Times " "[A] tour de force...This is intellectual history of tremendous verve, insight, and significance. Unfailingly spirited, often poetic, Gleick recharges our astonishment over the complexity and resonance of the digital sphere and ponders our hunger for connectedness...Destined to be a science classic, best-seller Gleick's dynamic history of information will be one of the biggest nonfiction books of the year." -"Booklist," starred review "With his brilliant ability to synthesize mounds of details and to tell rich stories, Gleick leads us on a journey from one form of communication information to another...Gleick's exceptional history of culture concludes that information is indeed the blood, the fuel, and the vital
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