THE INFORMATION: A History, a Theory, a Flood. by Gleick,…

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THE INFORMATION: A History, a Theory, a Flood.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Pantheon, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - A massive and fascinating book which "shows how information has become the modern eraÕs defining quality . . . From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, 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 brilliant and doomed daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself. And then the information age arrives. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly. . ." Extensive notes, bibliography, index. 526 pp. ISBN: 978-0375423727.

Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (remainder line)

Book ID: 85762
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