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Title: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Author: James W. Gleick
Publisher: Knopf DoubledayYear: 2011
527 pagesAudiobook
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 an idea and the accompanying paradigm shifts this engendered. Instead, I read most of it as a reunion with history and ideas that are old friends, brought together by Gleick to tell the story of the natural history of information. Recommended for nerds and geeks who like to see their various interests brought together.
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