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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

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A New York Times Notable Book
Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year

From the bestselling creator of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the brand new era: Information, communication, and information theory. 
 
Acclaimed science creator James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A captivating intellectual journey during the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the brand new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way in which, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our figuring out of information is transforming not only how we take a look at the world, but how we are living.

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