Gleick James: Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

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Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - James Gleick. James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. 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. Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - James Gleick od nakladatelství HarperCollins (UK) v kategorii English literature za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Knihydobrovsky.cz Die Geschichte der Information beginnt in einer Zeit, die unserer nicht unähnlicher sein könnte. Von der Entwicklung der sprechenden Trommeln zu den ersten Alphabeten und natürlich der Schrift, ist die Information einen weiten Weg gegangen. Eine höchst interessante und informative Geschichte. Fourth Estate: Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular...