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Title: The Information
Subtitle: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Author: James Gleick
Narrator: Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-01-11
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1283 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, World Affairs
Publisher's Summary:
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern eras defining qualitythe blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
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, James 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 poets 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.
And then the information age comes upon us. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And they sometimes feel they are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading. It will transform readers view of its subject.
Critic Reviews:
"Accessible and engrossing." (
Library Journal)
