Lanier's disarming modesty comes off as lack of confidence in his argument, or a collection of mere opinions, which is disappointing for such a thought provoking book. It is good to hear criticism of the prevailing mode of thought, but I wish it was a little less contradictory and smacked less of a...
This book made me think that we should have done more math in Information School. Although what math we did do was heavily protested against - mostly by people who only wanted to design pretty websites or knit and read novels. :)
Audiobook.I enjoyed Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science many years ago, and similarly enjoyed The Information, though, from the vantage of a certain age, I know more about more of the topics. Still, if I were 15 I'd be electrified by Gleick's account of the conceptual and technological progress of ...
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...
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