The Information

A History, a Theory, a Flood

[electronic resource] :, 416 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 8 de Noviembre de 2011 por Knopf Doubleday Pub. Group.

ISBN:
978-0-307-37957-3
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Número OCLC:
707742879

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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.

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The Information by James Gleick

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A good book if you want to know everything about information from the concept of information to the history & development of theories and technologies. A real soup to nuts book. One of the key things I learned is that information theory and all that goes into it is just not of interest to me. (shrug) But if you're into it, I bet you'll really like this book.

Temas

  • History
  • Information science
  • Information society