The Information Book Reviews

AUTHOR
James Gleick
SCORE
3.5
TOTAL RATINGS
369

The Information by James Gleick Book Summary

From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. 
 
Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live.

A New York Times Notable Book
A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year
Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award 

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Book Name The Information
Genre Science History
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 7.85 MB

The Information (James Gleick) Book Reviews 2024

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Very enjoyable techie history read. Found this book to be excellent, albeit hard to understand at times, the author does a good job of explaining abstract, complicated topics, such as bits, quantum theory, mathematics. Definitely an interesting and somewhat challenging read, very informative, no pun intended! Highly recommended for any tech geeks, history buffs, educators, psychologists, and anyone interested math, physics, technology, programming, etc. Gleick is a great non-fiction writer! Found this after reading his Isaac Newton book.

Interesting read. A great introduction to information theory. I really enjoyed learning about the history of language and communication

Can you imagine not being able to imagine writing?. I was quite happy with the review that I painstakingly typed into my iPad over the last half hour. iBooks was also impressed. I know this because it immediately crashed and erased everything I wrote. (it devoured my review. beep beep beep beep. it's kind of… a bummer) So, I suppose you'll have to take my (abbreviated) word for it - the book is very good. read it. The gist of my original review is this: Most history books, especially history of science, can't escape the condescension implicit to hindsight. Gleick avoids it by thoroughly describing thought and perception in a world where the telephone (the dictionary. logic. the written word), is not missing, it's just… unimaginable.

The Information. This a fantastic book! Anyone that has ZZZZZZ from reading it should take a nap and pick up Dan Brown. I learned more and was amazed by the intellectual power of the author in making a very difficult topic understandable and interesting. From beginning to end it is a tour de force! Thanks, James Gleick. Jim Clark

Philosophical version of Gleick. Not typical Gleick. Some interesting history, but too much philosophical waxing. Those who are into this style will appreciate this work as it's expressed as a full symphony on information. Those who want something more concise, will find the work long albeit punctuated with some fascinating history. Because I belong to the latter category, I'm not sure I can recommend this to the fan of Gleick's previous work embodied by his books on chaos, and Feynman.

worth the effort. I found it to be an excellent journey through the history of human communication. The book grabbed me right away with the "talking drums of Africa". There were only one or two times during the entire (lengthy) book when I thought the information was getting dense, but whose fault is that? Gleick titled the book "The Information".

Fascinating. Well written, a great book on a complex subject...

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Summary of The Information by James Gleick

The The Information book written by James Gleick was published on 01 March 2011, Tuesday in the Science History category. A total of 369 readers of the book gave the book 3.5 points out of 5.

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