01721cam a2200301 a 4500 OSt 20170613131419.0 100621s2011 nyua b 001 0 eng 2010023221 978007225743 (OCoLC)ocn607975727 DLC DLC YDX BTCTA YDXCP ABG VP@ UPZ BWX CDX NSB pcc SMII pcat FY2011 Z665 .G547 2011 Gleick, James. The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2011. 526 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-503) and index. Drums that talk -- 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. 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. Information science History. Information society. lcc SB NMAHMAI 39088015219678 nmah lc book 965895 256544 256543 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC 40404 40404 GEN 2017-06-13 0 Z665 .G547 2011 201700333 2017-06-13 00:00:00 2017-06-13 SB 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC 40404 40404 GEN 2017-06-27 0 Z665 .G547 2011 201700550 2017-06-27 00:00:00 2017-06-27 SB