James Gleick The Information 2011 Retail EPUB eBook-BitBook torrent

| The Information |
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| A History, A Theory, A Flood |
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| DATE: 2012-06-06 SIZE: 5,91MB DISKS: 02_______4,77MB PAGES: |
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| PUBLISHER: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group GENRE: History |
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| AUTHOR: James Gleick |
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| FORMAT: EPUB PROTECTION: DRM EDITION: |
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| URL: http://is_gd/So5UcA |
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| LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978-0-307-37957-3 |
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: James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings :
: us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and :
: meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defining :
: quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. :
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: The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when :
: every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. From the :
: invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums :
: of Africa, 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 brilliant and doomed:
: daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures:
: like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of :
: information theory itself. :
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: And then the information age arrives. Citizens of this world become experts:
: willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And we sometimes feel we 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. :