TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gleick,James
TI  - The information: a history, a theory, a flood 
SN  - 9780375423727
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pantheon Books
KW  - Information science
KW  - History
KW  - Information society
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-503) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -