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The information : a history, a theory, a flood
- Title
- The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick.
- Author
- Gleick, James
- Publication
- New York : Vintage Books, 2012, ©2011.
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- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-503) and index.
- Contents
- Drums that talk -- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781400096237
- 1400096235
- LCCN
- 2012371524
- OCLC
- ocn745979816
- 745979816
- SCSB-14721667
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries