by James Gleick
First published 2011
Gleick traces the centuries-long evolution of information, from the talking drums of Africa to the digital revolution. Revealing the pioneers who cracked the code of communication, he shows how our modern understanding of information was forged - from Morse's telegraph to Shannon's theories, Turing's machines to our internet age. Sweeping and authoritative, The Information is a revelatory look at how we came to think in bits and bytes.
Genres: 20th-century, computers, non-fiction, 21st-century, information-science, communication, academic, history-of-science
Vibes: thought-provoking
Tropes: educational, informative
Period: 19th-Century, 20th-Century, 21st-Century
527 pages · Hardcover · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group