Author: James Gleick
Genre: Library & Information Sciences/ Media Studies
Publisher: Fourth Estate, London
ISBN: 9780007225743
Date: 2012
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Description: We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code. 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.
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