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James Gleick, the writer of the best vendors Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information is among the most modern era's defining quality-the blood vessels, the energy, the vital concept of the world. The storyline of information starts in a time profoundly unlike our very own, when every thought and utterance vanished when it was created. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, Wayne Gleick tells the storyplot of information technology that changed the nature of individual awareness. He provides portraits of the main element figures contributing to the inexorable development of the modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanised computer; Ada Byron, the poet's excellent and doomed little princess, who became the first true programmer; pivotal results like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself. And then the information age comes after us. Citizens of the world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of pieces and bytes. Plus they sometimes feel they are simply drowning, swept by the deluge of symptoms and signals, media and images, sites and tweets. THE INFO is the storyplot of how exactly we acquired here and where we could heading. It will transform visitors' view of its subject matter.
