The Information

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James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. Three of these books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Born in New York City, USA, Gleick attended Harvard College, graduating in 1976 with a degree in English and linguistics. Having worked for the Harvard Crimson and freelanced in Boston, he moved to Minneapolis, where he helped found a short-lived weekly newspaper, Metropolis. After its demise, he returned to New York and joined as staff of the New York Times, where he worked for ten years as an editor and reporter.

He was the McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University in 1989-90. Gleick collaborated with the photographer Eliot Porter on Nature's Chaos and with developers at Autodesk on Chaos: The Software. In 1993, he founded The Pipeline, an early Internet service. Gleick is active on the boards of the Authors Guild and the Key West Literary Seminar.

His first book, Chaos: Making a New Science, an international best-seller, chronicled the development of chaos theory and made the Butterfly Effect a household phrase.

Among the scientists Gleick profiled were Mitchell Feigenbaum, Stephen Jay Gould, Douglas Hofstadter, Richard Feynman and Benoit Mandelbrot. His early reporting on Microsoft anticipated the antitrust investigations by the U. S. Department of Justice and the European Commission. Gleick's essays charting the growth of the Internet included the "Fast Forward" column on technology in the New York Times Magazine from 1995 to 1999 and formed the basis of his book What Just Happened. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, the Atlantic, Slate, and the Washington Post.

Bibliography:

1987 Chaos: Making a New Science, Viking Penguin. (ISBN 0140092501)

1990 (with Eliot Porter) Nature's Chaos, Viking Penguin. (ISBN 0316609420)

1992 Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Pantheon. (ISBN 0679747044)

1999 Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, Pantheon. (ISBN 067977548X)

2000 (editor) The Best American Science Writing 2000, HarperCollins. (ISBN 0060957360)

2002 What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Electronic Frontier, Pantheon. (ISBN 0375713913)

2003 Isaac Newton, Pantheon. (ISBN 1400032954)

2011 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. New York: Pantheon Books. (ISBN 9780375423727 )

出版者:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
作者:James Gleick
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页数:544
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出版时间:2011-3-1
价格:USD 35.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780375423727
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James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius , brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.

The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. 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 provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the poet’s brilliant and doomed daughter, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself.

And then the information age comes upon us. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And they sometimes feel they are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading. It will transform readers’ view of its subject.

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当电报出现时,一些人像发现了新大陆,感叹道:“电报传递信息,和人体中神经传递信息的现象很相似。所以说,电报网就是地球的神经系统啊!” 当电话出现时,另一些人似乎完全不知道上面的隐喻,再一次感叹道:“电话传递信息,和人体中神经传递信息的现象很相似。所以说,电...  

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这是一本关于信息的历史书,有料有趣,作者写了七年,中文版做了两年。这本书是图灵主编武卫东亲自推荐给我的,我问他为什么花了这么久,他说「要对得起原著」。 我花了大概三个周读完,期间查阅了许多相关的资料。我从这本书里收获了太多东西,以至于读后我盯着四五个写着主...  

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慢慢觉得,非虚构类的书,整体上是告诉你世界是怎么回事儿,又可分两大类:让你知道作者觉得世界是怎么回事儿(比如散文、游记、回忆录、人物传记等),让你知道世界本来是怎么回事儿(科普、历史、地理、人文等等)。 非虚构类的书,跨界阅读都是非常重要的。对于第一种...  

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当电报出现时,一些人像发现了新大陆,感叹道:“电报传递信息,和人体中神经传递信息的现象很相似。所以说,电报网就是地球的神经系统啊!” 当电话出现时,另一些人似乎完全不知道上面的隐喻,再一次感叹道:“电话传递信息,和人体中神经传递信息的现象很相似。所以说,电...  

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Dull and dry; Overly philosophical yet not scientific; Sometimes flawy. Gleick probably knows writing history well but apparently he doesn't understand science well enough to discuss math. There are many interesting paradoxes/axioms/theories mentioned in this book but he just failed to explain them in the very correct way.

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First Shannon had to eradicate “meaning.” The germicidal quotation marks were his. “The ‘meaning’ of a message is generally irrelevant,” he proposed cheerfully. ( Chpt 7. 8. 9. 12 )

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2014-4-1;看不动啊。涉及历史的英文读起来很难啊。里面涉及到数学、悖论。数学也是一种语言啊。

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Dull and dry; Overly philosophical yet not scientific; Sometimes flawy. Gleick probably knows writing history well but apparently he doesn't understand science well enough to discuss math. There are many interesting paradoxes/axioms/theories mentioned in this book but he just failed to explain them in the very correct way.

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最后三章没读,以后补上。通史,读着玩儿的

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