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Gleick, James.
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Information science -- History
Technology -- History.
Computer programming -- History.
Information society.
Information superhighway.
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Gleick, James.
Information science -- History
Technology -- History.
Computer programming -- History.
Information society.
Information superhighway.
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The
information
[sound recording] : a
history
, a
theory
, a
flood
/ James Gleick.
by
Gleick, James.
Random House Audio, p2011.
Call #:
COMPACT DISC 303.483 G556i
Subjects
Information
science --
History
Technology --
History
.
Computer programming --
History
.
Information
society.
Information
superhighway.
ISBN:
9780307914965
Format:
[sound recording] :
Edition:
Unabridged.
Description:
14 compact discs (ca. 16:30 hrs.) : digital ; 12 cm.
Contents:
Drums 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.
Performers:
Read by Rob Shapiro.
Summary:
"James Gleick, the author of the best sellers 'Chaos' and 'Genius', now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how
information
has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world."--Publisher.
Genre:
Adult books on CD.
Other authors:
Shapiro, Rob.
Random House Audio Publishing.
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J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library
Adult Nonfiction on CD
COMPACT DISC 303.483 G556i
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