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    The information [sound recording] : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick.
    by Gleick, James.
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    Random House Audio, p2011.
    Call #:COMPACT DISC 303.483 G556i
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  • Information science -- History
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  • Technology -- History.
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  • Computer programming -- History.
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  • 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 LibraryAdult Nonfiction on CDCOMPACT DISC 303.483 G556iAdult Compact DiscsChecked inAdd Copy to MyList


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