The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

· HarperCollins UK
4.5
13 reviews
eBook
544
Pages

About this eBook

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.

Ratings and reviews

4.5
13 reviews
Rowland Noble
12 April 2014
This book leaves me with intense curiosity about the future of the information age.
1 person found this review helpful
Nigel Senior (Nigel S)
31 August 2014
Loved it
Anil Das
4 February 2023
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About the author

James Gleick was born in New York in 1954. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of Chaos, Genius, Faster, What Just Happened and a biography of Isaac Newton.

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