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The information : a history, a theory, a flood

Author:James Gleick

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

Print Book, English, 2012, ©2011

Edition:1st Vintage books ed., 2012 View all formats and editions

Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, 2012, ©2011

Genre:HISTORY

Physical Description:526 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

ISBN:

9781400096237, 1400096235

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:745979816

Subjects:

Datenverarbeitung

INFORMATION SOCIETY

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

INFORMATION THEORY

Information society

Information technology

Information technology History

Information theory

Information theory History

Société informatisée

Technologie de l'information Histoire

Théorie de l'information Histoire

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