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The Information

The Information

作者:James Gleick

分类:文学

ISBN:9780375423727

出版时间:2011-3-1

出版社:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

标签: 信息论  科普  信息  计算机  历史  美国  JamesGleick  科学 

章节目录

Prologue 3 1 Drums That Talk 13 2 The Persistence of the Word 28 3 Two Wordbooks 51 4 To Throw the Powers of Thought into Wheel-Work 78 5 A Nervous System for the Earth 125 6 New Wires, New Logic 168 7 Information Theory 204 8 The Informational Turn 233 9 Entropy and Its Demons 269 10 Life's Own Code 287 11 Into the Meme Pool 310 12 The Sense of Randomness 324 13 Information Is Physical 355 14 After the Flood 373 15 New News Every Day 398 Epilogue 413 Acknowledgments 427 Notes 429 Bibliography 477 Index 505

内容简介

James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius , brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. 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 provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the poet’s brilliant and doomed daughter, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself. And then the information age comes upon us. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And they sometimes feel they are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading. It will transform readers’ view of its subject.

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