The information [Texte imprimé] : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick
LivresLangue: anglais.Éditeur : New York : Pantheon Books, cop. 2011Description : 1 vol. (526 p.) :
ill. en noir et blanc ;
25 cmISBN: 978-0-375-42372-7; 0-375-42372-9.Résumé : From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He also provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information, including Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and Claude ShannonSujet - Nom commun: Société numérique | Information science -- History | Information society | 027656586Histoire 
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Bibliogr. p. 429-503. Index
From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He also provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information, including Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and Claude Shannon
Drums that talk The 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
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