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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.

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The information : a history, a theory, a flood, James Gleick

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Idioma
Inglés
Editorial
Fourth Estate
Publicado en
2012
Formato
Tapa blanda
Páginas
526
ISBN10
0007225741
ISBN13
9780007225743
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Primera publicación
2011
Título original
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood.
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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.