Bits In The Ether Biography

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, published on March 1, maybe the most accessible study on the subject ever. (Think of a more sweeping Grammatical Man (Jeremy Campbell, 1982) with the development of the Internet and the relentless march of Moore's Law to cope with, if you're familiar with it.) Today, no book is likely to have the same impact as Gleick's 1987 best-seller Chaos, which helped popularise the idea. The Information, on the other hand, has a good chance of becoming another popular science classic. This is due to Gleick's almost lyrical approach as he narrates the history of communication, starting with its fleeting character in preliterate civilizations and ending, for the time being, with bits. Plato's exterior characters, who are par excellence not a part of themselves. Gleick is alluding to a passage in Phaedrus in which Socrates criticizes writing, believing that it will lead to memory loss because letters are pointless on their own. Writing, printing, telegraphy, telephone, broadcasting, the computer (analog and digital, mechanical and electrical), and the Internet are all brought to life with enough technical depth to satisfy those who are already familiar with Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener. Gleick, on the other hand, never loses sight of real-life Alices and Bobs, whether they're talking drummers or Wikipedia contributors, and weaves in cosmology, psychology, genetics, memetics, and even music.

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