03497cam a2200481 i 4500 21795341 BJBSDDR 20260825133101.0 ta 201101s2022 nyua b 001 0 eng 2020046554 9780593087251 (paperback) 0593087259 (paperback) 9780593087268 (ebook) LBSOR/DLC eng rda DLC DLC eng pcc Q 360 S311a 2022 003/.54 Scharf, Caleb, 1968- 40848 The ascent of information : how data rules the world / Caleb Scharf. First Riverhead Books trade paperback edition New York : Riverhead Books, 2022. 340 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Originally published: 2021 Includes bibliographical references and index. Our eternal data -- The burden of an idea -- In sickness and in health -- An ever more tangled bank -- Genes, memes, and dreams -- The information river -- Life made machine -- The great blending -- A universe of dataomes. "Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we've failed to ask exactly why we're expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create-all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos-amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it's an organism that has evolved right alongside us. This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn't just something we produce; it's the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life. The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset, and to preserving the possibility of a human future"-- Provided by publisher. Information theory. Teoría de la información 24873 Human-computer interaction. Interacción humano computadora 30417 Human-machine systems. Sistemas hombre-máquina 25995 Online version: Scharf, Caleb A., 1968- Ascent of information New York : Riverhead, 2021 9780593087268 (DLC) 2020046555 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK dpf 122900 122900 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-02-25 0 Q 360 S311a 2022 00000173349 2025-02-25 00:00:00 1 2025-02-25 BK