The Information：A History, A Theory, A Flood

ANewYorkTimesNotableBookA?LosAngelesTimesandClevelandPlainDealerBestBookoftheYearFromthebestsellingauthoroftheacclaimedChaosandGeniuscomesathoughtfulandprovocativeexplorationofthebigideasofthemodernera:Information,communication,andinformationtheory.??AcclaimedsciencewriterJamesGleickpresentsaneye-openingvisionofhowourrelationshiptoinformationhastransformedtheverynatureofhumanconsciousness.Afascinatingintellectualjourneythroughthehistoryofcommunicationandinformation,fromthelanguageofAfrica’stalkingdrumstotheinventionofwrittenalphabets;fromtheelectronictransmissionofcodetotheoriginsofinformationtheory,intothenewinformationageandthecurrentdelugeofnews,tweets,images,andblogs.Alongtheway,Gleickprofileskeyinnovators,includingCharlesBabbage,AdaLovelace,SamuelMorse,andClaudeShannon,andrevealshowourunderstandingofinformationistransformingnotonlyhowwelookattheworld,buthowwelive.