Détail

Titre

The information: a history, a theory, a flood

Cote

Z 665 G54 2011

Auteur(e)s

Gleick, James

Éditeur

New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.

Description Physique

526 p. : ill.

Abstrait

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.

Table des Matières

Drums that talk. -- Persistence of the word. -- Two wordbooks. -- To throw the powers of thought into wheel-work. -- A nervous system for the Earth. -- New wires, new logic. -- Information theory. -- The informational turn. -- Entropy and its demons. -- Life’s own code. -- Into the meme pool. -- The sense of randomness. -- Information is physical. -- After the flood. -- New news every day.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Langage

English

Sujet

Information science - History

Information society

ISBN

9780375423727

Localisation

STACKS (RC)

Accès

Public

ID

CAT 17142