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BookLogging - JamesGleick
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Official bit:
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http://around.com/the-information
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:The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood “talking drums” of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the poet’s brilliant and doomed daughter, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself.
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Reviewed [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/mar/10/how-we-know/?pagination=false here] (loosely speaking) by FreemanDyson.
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