The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext James Gleick, the author of the bestseller CHAOS, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality-the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The information age is upon us, and citizens of this world have become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And they sometimes feel they are drowning, swept by a deluge of 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' views on the subject. Zusammenfassung Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012! the world's leading prize for popular science writing.

Product details

• Authors: James Gleick, Gleick James
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2012
• EAN: 9780007225743
• ISBN: 978-0-00-722574-3
• No. of pages: 526
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 39 mm
• Series: Fourth Estate
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; SCIENCE / History, History of Science, Library & Information Sciences, Library and information sciences / Museology, information;data;history