The Information

A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

544 Seiten

2011
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-742311-8 (ISBN)

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Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing.

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.

James Gleick was born in New York in 1954. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of Chaos, Genius, Faster, What Just Happened and a biography of Isaac Newton.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.2.2011
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	701 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
Schlagworte	Information
ISBN-10	0-00-742311-X / 000742311X
ISBN-13	978-0-00-742311-8 / 9780007423118
Zustand	Neuware