TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gleick,James
TI  - The information: a history, a theory, a flood 
SN  - 9781400096237
AV  - Z665 .G547 2012
U1  - 020.9 
PY  - 2012///, ©2011
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Information theory
KW  - History
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Information society
KW  - fast
KW  - INFORMATION SOCIETY
KW  - unbist
KW  - INFORMATION THEORY
KW  - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
KW  - HISTORY
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-503) 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
N2  - 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
ER  -