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The Information
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The Information (2011) (edit title/settings)

A History, a Theory, a Flood

by James Gleick (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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After 1948, which was the crucial year, people thought they could see the clear purpose that inspired Claude Shannon's work, but that was hindsight.

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Prologue
1. Drums That Talk
2. The Persistence of the Word
3. Two Wordbooks
4. To Throw the Powers of Thought into Wheel-Work
5. A Nervous System for the Earth
6. New Wires, New Logic
7. Information Theory
8. The Informational Turn
9. Entropy and Its Demons
10. Life's Own Code
11. Into the Meme Pool
12. The Sense of Randomness
13. Information is Physical
14. After the Flood
15. New News Every Day
Epilogue

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In Chapter 1 Gleick writes "He drummed mainly in Kele, a language of the Bantu family in what is now eastern Zaire." Zaire has not been a country since 1997 when it became the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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This book is in 2011 Published Books. (community list)
This book is in Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011. (authoritative list)
This book is in Amazon.com Best Books of 2011. (authoritative list)
This is book 5 of 10 in Amazon.com Best Books of March (2011). (authoritative list)

Preceded by Moonwalking With Einstein, and followed by The cardboard valise.

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  1. James Gleick (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Pantheon
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: March 1 2011
ISBN: 978-0375423727
Page Count: 544

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  • Library of Congress: Z665.G547 2011
  • Dewey: 020.9

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