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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood 8.5分

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作者:James Gleick

出版社:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

出版日期:2011-01

ISBN:9780375423727

文件格式: pdf

标签: 信息论 科普 信息 计算机 历史 美国 JamesGleick 科学

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James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius , 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 story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. ...

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目录

Prologue 3
1 Drums That Talk 13
2 The Persistence of the Word 28
3 Two Wordbooks 51
4 To Throw the Powers of Thought into Wheel-Work 78
5 A Nervous System for the Earth 125
6 New Wires, New Logic 168
7 Information Theory 204
8 The Informational Turn 233
9 Entropy and Its Demons 269
10 Life's Own Code 287
11 Into the Meme Pool 310
12 The Sense of Randomness 324
13 Information Is Physical 355
14 After the Flood 373
15 New News Every Day 398
Epilogue 413
Acknowledgments 427
Notes 429
Bibliography 477
Index 505