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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (edition 2011)

by James Gleick (Author)

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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.… (more)

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020.9Information › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science › Biography And History

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Z665.G547Bibliography, Library Science and Information Resources › Libraries › Library science. Information science

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