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Author Gleick, James.

Title The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, [2011]
©2011
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1475370~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  020.9 GLE    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  020.9 GLE    AVAILABLE
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Description 526 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-503) and index.
Contents Drums that talk -- The 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.
Subject Information science -- History.
Information society.
ISBN 9780375423727
0375423729
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