01947cam a2200397Ka 4500 105098 105098 BJBSDDR 20230411085633.0 ta 110630s2011 xxua c 001 0 eng 9780375423727 0375423729 (OCoLC)ocn733847607 (OCoLC)733847607 PUCPR spa PUCPR eng GRAL Z 665 G556i 2011 003.54 Gleick, James, 1954- The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2011. 526 p. : il. ; 25 cm. Incluye bibliografía e índice. (p. 429-503) 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. From 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 Information science History. Information society. Information Science History. Teoría de la información Historia. Primera Jornada de Catalogacion. Tecnologías de la información y la comunicación Historia. PR 607975727 lcc BK rg 0 0 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-11 0 Z 665 G556i 2011 00000092437 2019-01-21 00:00:00 1 2019-01-21 BK