The information : a history, a theory, a flood
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The information : a history, a theory, a flood
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- The information : a history, a theory, a flood
- Title remainder
- a history, a theory, a flood
- Statement of responsibility
- James Gleick
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 2012.
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2011.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2011.
- Royal Society General Prizes for Science Books, 2012.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 020.9
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- facsimiles
- photographs
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adult
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