The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

by James Gleick

Book Overview

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. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375423729
• ISBN13: 9780375423727
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 526 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.6" x 9.4"