The Information is so comprehensive and so multifaceted it almost defies categorization, unless that category you're looking for is: awesome. It's a history, a paradigm for looking at the development and future of human culture, a conception of the physical universe and much, much more besides. Glei...
Upon a second reading, this book deserves the 4 star rating I gave it a few years ago. Gleick is an excellent writer, and pulls off an engaging history of Information Theory and it's impact on modern science. Information Theory is like philosophy in the sense that it underlies much of science (physi...
This book was very interesting. It seems to be a history of information theory, and the author weaves together strands from a number of different disciplines, bringing to life what could be very dry. But once I'd finished it, I felt somewhat disappointed. I felt that he gave very short shrift to ...
"My first intro to Info Theory and not my last"Gleick explains information theory from soups to nuts, from African drum talking through Shannon's information theory. His chapter on information entropy is the first time when I finally started understanding the second law of thermodynamics (since they...
Couple thoughts, 50 or so pages in:--Listen, it's damned impressive not just to zero in on the rise of information as a theory but to grapple with a comprehensive history of information. (Chapter one--African drumming as an early method of encoding bits of information... Like Michener writing one o...
James Gleick gives new meaning to the acronym TMI in this packed history of the conveyance, calculation, packaging and processing of information. Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, Claude Shannon, Norbert Wiener, Richard Dawkins, Ada Byron, and Isaac Newton are just a few of the players tha...
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