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Carregando... The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (edição: 2011)de James Gleick
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The heart of Gleick’s book is his treatment of the new information theory that Shannon — and computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing, noisily brilliant pioneer Norbert Stuart Wiener and many others — created in the middle decades of the 20th century. But Gleick loops backward to discuss early efforts at messaging and storage, from drum messages to dictionaries, and forward to make clear the massive consequences of what Shannon and the others wrought. ... Gleick is a technological determinist, in a moderate way. He argues elegantly that the telegraph promoted everything from the weaving of networks to the building of skyscrapers and the creation of a new “telegraphic” style of communication. It seems a pity, accordingly, that he does not say more about the ways in which information theory and its technical progeny have changed our ways of reading and writing, doing research and listening to music. ... A highly ambitious and generally brilliant effort to tie together centuries of disparate scientific efforts to understand information as a meaningful concept. For a society that believes itself to live in an information age, the subject could hardly be more important. That the project doesn't fully succeed has more to do with the limits of our understanding than with Gleick's efforts. Bestselling science and technology writer Gleick (Genius) gives a brilliant, panoramic view of how we save and communicate knowledge-from ancient African drumming to alphabets, the telegraph, radio, telephone and computers-and provides thrilling portraits of the geniuses behind the inventions. Pertence à série publicadaImeline Teadus (19) PrêmiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Um dos grandes méritos de James Gleick é a capacidade de estabelecer uma relação clara entre as pinturas nas cavernas, tambores africanos, código morse, DNA e Wikipedia.
Mesmo alternando uma escrita densa quando foca em conceitos fundamentais, com histórias leves que retratam a proximidade do tema ao nosso cotidiano, James Gleick traz ao público geral um tema que tende a pautar as discussões do futuro. Bom demais.