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100	1		_aGleick, James.
245	1	4	_aThe information : _ba history, a theory, a flood / _cJames Gleick.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bPantheon Books, _cc2011.
300			_a526 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 429-503) and index.
505	0		_aDrums that talk -- Persistence of the word -- Two wordbooks -- To throw the powers of thought into wheel-work -- A nervous system for the Earth -- New wires, new logic -- Information theory -- The informational turn -- Entropy and its demons -- Life's own code -- Into the meme pool -- The sense of randomness -- Information is physical -- After the flood -- New news every day.
520			_aFrom the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He also provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information, including Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and Claude Shannon.
650		0	_aInformation science _xHistory.
650		0	_aInformation society.
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