01830cam a2200337Ka 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087035002400102035002100126040002200147041000800169050002200177082001100199100002700210245006900237250001200306260004000318300002800358504005200386505038300438520042800821650003401249650002501283650003401308650004401342650003701386650006901423BJBSDDR20230411085633.0ta110630s2011    xxua     c    001 0 eng    a9780375423727  a0375423729  a(OCoLC)ocn733847607  a(OCoLC)733847607  aPUCPRbspacPUCPR  aeng14aZ 665bG556i 201100a003.541 aGleick, James, d1954-14aThe information :ba history, a theory, a flood /cJames Gleick.  a1st ed.  aNew York :bPantheon Books,cc2011.  a526 p. :bil. ;c25 cm.  aIncluye bibliografía e índice. (p. 429-503)0 aDrums 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.  aFrom the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He also provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information, including Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and Claude Shannon 0aInformation sciencexHistory. 0aInformation society. 0aInformation SciencexHistory. 4aTeoría de la informaciónxHistoria. 4aPrimera Jornada de Catalogacion. 4aTecnologías de la información y la comunicaciónxHistoria.