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发表于2024-05-21
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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.
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 )
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评分最后三章没读,以后补上。通史,读着玩儿的
评分作者试图证明:"In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself."初步感觉格局略微松散,并让人联想到媒介环境学派。
评分An over-rated book for me. Apparently, the author is not of science or engineering training. There are lots of technical terms that will be far better explained if the reader goes to any authors in that particular field. However, it shouldn't be ignored that the author does devise an organized method to present the history of information.
评分Chapter 11之后的章节都是跳着读的,作者的野心超过了科普的界限,试图把Shannon的Information与"Information Age"联结到一起,其后果就是前10章与后5章的脱节,有一点不伦不类的感觉。
本书的翻译、编辑已经完成,后期还有排校、审读等环节,预计11月左右上市。 作者詹姆斯·格雷克(James Gleick),生于1954年,本科毕业于哈佛学院,曾长期在《纽约时报》担任记者和编辑。1987年,他的首部作品《混沌——开创新科学》入围了美国国家图书奖和普利策奖的决赛,...
评分当电报出现时,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...
评分书要一本一本地读。今天拿起《信息简史》阅读。作为曾经研究过信息问题的研究生,我对这本书有浓厚的兴趣。翻阅不到一半,感觉作者其实是用自己独特的手法展现人类文明(特别是科学)的历史。不少素材都曾经见过,通过作者的重新编排理请了信息发展的脉络。该书获得文津图书奖。
评分当电报出现时,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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