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.
- ISBN10 0307379574
- ISBN13 9780307379573
- Publish Date 15 February 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Pantheon Books
- Format eBook
- Language English