In ‘The Information’ James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the ‘bit’, it is a fascinating account of the modern age’s defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives/5(). Gleick, James. The information: a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. eISBN 1. Information science—History. 2. Information society. I. Title. ZG —dc22 www.doorway.ru www.doorway.ru Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund v Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human www.doorway.ru by:
The Information is to the nature, history and significance of data what the beach is to sand. Gleick is one of the great science writers of all time, and that is, in part, because he is a science biographer. Not a biographer of scientists (although there is much biographical insight to scientists, mathematicians, lexicographers, writers and. The Information: a History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick - review. Gleick sets himself a monumental task - to tell the story of information throughout human history - and delivers. A Book Review of "The Information" by James Gleick. This book report was written by Laurel Brenner, Spring For the book review assignment, I read James Gleick's book The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. And what a flood it was; more like a tidal wave. In Module One of this class, Dr. Stephens mentioned some of the.
Information has had an enormous impact on human thought and history because it led to logic. So information changed the way we think and therefore its history is an indirect history of human thought. You’ll learn about the major developments and changes in how humans use information in our twenty-first century lives. In ‘The Information’ James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the ‘bit’, it is a fascinating account of the modern age’s defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives. James Gleick has accomplished a hugely difficult task in this book. He has written the history of the tools we use in our everyday lives, knowing that for most of us, the abstractions on which those tools depend are irrelevant to the ways we apply them. It is the abstractions and the scientists who conceived them which intrigue Gleick.
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