Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing.
We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code.
In 'The Information' James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the 'bit', it is a fascinating account of the modern age's defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives.
| ISBN: | 9780007225743 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 2012 |
| Author: | James Gleick |
| Publisher: | 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 526 pages |
| Genres: |
History History of ideas Knowledge management Information retrieval and access Information theory Impact of science and technology on society Popular Science History of Computing, digital and information technologies Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects Information retrieval |