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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (edizione 2011)di James Gleick
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 The heart of Gleick’s book is his treatment of the new information theory that Shannon — and computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing, noisily brilliant pioneer Norbert Stuart Wiener and many others — created in the middle decades of the 20th century. But Gleick loops backward to discuss early efforts at messaging and storage, from drum messages to dictionaries, and forward to make clear the massive consequences of what Shannon and the others wrought. ... Gleick is a technological determinist, in a moderate way. He argues elegantly that the telegraph promoted everything from the weaving of networks to the building of skyscrapers and the creation of a new “telegraphic” style of communication. It seems a pity, accordingly, that he does not say more about the ways in which information theory and its technical progeny have changed our ways of reading and writing, doing research and listening to music. ... A highly ambitious and generally brilliant effort to tie together centuries of disparate scientific efforts to understand information as a meaningful concept. For a society that believes itself to live in an information age, the subject could hardly be more important. That the project doesn't fully succeed has more to do with the limits of our understanding than with Gleick's efforts.  Bestselling science and technology writer Gleick (Genius) gives a brilliant, panoramic view of how we save and communicate knowledge-from ancient African drumming to alphabets, the telegraph, radio, telephone and computers-and provides thrilling portraits of the geniuses behind the inventions. Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiImeline Teadus (19) Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Early communications methods, talking drums in Africa, had few types of sounds. The lack of differentiation could have easily led to errors in communication, but that problem was fixed via redundancy. Extra sounds provided more information, clarifying the information sent in the message. Seeming redundancy prevented miscommunication. Quantification of language from sound to characters created many written redundancies.
Writing did more than just separate the original information from its time and space. Writing separated abstraction from experience. Information about realities not witness was capable of being spread and be believed. New descriptions and words needed to be formed to spread information, causing new words to be invented to describe words and information. With more information such as books and news, not only sorting the information was needed, but having consistency in spelling. When information was scare, every word had to have meaning, but now information is over abundant leading to a dearth of meaning.
The history of writing is part of the history of information. Math and numbers are the other part. From Babbage’ and Ada Byron’s computing machine which changed characters to code, to wires creating the telegraph to transmit the code, lead to incremental improves to the speed and amount of information which could be communicated. Technological communication which lead to the Morse code and the enigma machine.
Cryptography, the act of making information indecipherable to all but the intended audience, is a major theme in this book and is as old as writing. Writing itself was initially a cryptograph for royals and officials to relay messages. The coding methods such as substituting letters for symbols was initially used for cyphers, but was also later needed for sending information via wires and electricity.
Topics easy or technical are written with such prose and detail that the reader ends up learning so much from each page. The sequence of chapters makes some parts of the book difficult to understand. Each chapter is better viewed as individual essays rather than a continuous explanation. Some chapters are highly correlated such as a particular technology being a fundamental step for the next chapters technological breakthrough, but many chapters have a major break from the preceding chapter. Alternatively, some chapters which should go together, are separated by seemingly unrelated chapters. It seems that Gleick uses the chapters as timestamps, but the transition from chapter to chapter is lacking. (