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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400096235
• ISBN13: 9781400096237
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Prepare yourself for a new vision of your universe.

Many great insights into “The meaning of life, the universe, and everything” begin with a vision or a universal concept that was just under our noses but required someone to tell us what we already knew and bring it to our attention. Think back to economics classes before those classes; economics was just the term for money handling. Now we see that in every Great War and every great invention, and even the small ones, were encouraged and made available due to economics. Before reading books such as “Homo Evolutis” by Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans, we knew of evolution and its controversies but never thought we would see it all around us and realize that much of it is our doing. Now there is “The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood” by James Gleick, also the author of “Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything.” The title of this book is an understatement of what you are about to be presented with. Just keep in mind that as much fun as this book is to read, it is how you use this information that gives the book its worth. We will see that every little “bit” of the universe and everything in it is “information.” Do not overlook the prologue for an encompassing hint as to what the book is about. No information-related subject is glossed over; we see the extensive history and in-depth views of what information is, how it is all around us, and where it is going. I will not go into every detail if you do not need to read the book. Be prepared for over four hundred footnotes and an extensive bibliography, which will take some time to “look the references up.”