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The information a theory a flood5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Research to improve these technologies ultimately led to our understanding the essentially digital nature of information, quantized down to the unit of the bit (or qubit). ![]() ![]() Gleick transitions from the information implications of such drum signaling to the impact of the arrival of long-distance telegraph and then telephone communication to the commercial and social prospects of the industrial age west. Gleick begins with the tale of colonial European explorers and their fascination with African talking drums and their observed use to send complex widely understood messages back and forth between villages, and over even longer distances by relay. The Information has also been published in ebook formats by Fourth Estate and Random House, and as an audiobook by Random House Audio. It was on The New York Times best-seller list for three weeks following its debut. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in March 2011, which covers the genesis of the current information age. James Gleick talks about The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood on Bookbits radio ![]()
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