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The information ::a history, a theory, a flood /
No full textFrom 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
James Gleick: 'Wikipedia maakt ons bewuster van feilbaarheid van bronnen'
No full textJames Gleick, bekend van zijn boek Chaos, was eind oktober in Nederland voor een korte promotietour voor zijn nieuwste boekwerk: The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood. Frank Huysmans doet verslag van Gleicks bezoek en boek
Conflicting Visions for Water: Common Property or Private Good?
No full textDr. Peter H. Gleick gave this lecture on water, in general, with a focus on bottled water on Feb. 9, 2012, which was held in the Black Cultural Center and open to the public. Dr. Gleick is co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. His research and writing address the critical connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources. Dr. Gleick is an internationally recognized water expert and was named a MacArthur Fellow in October 2003 for his work. Gleick is the author of many scientific papers and seven books, including the biennial water report, "The World's Water", and the new "Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water".Lecture on water; Part of the Sustainability Project-sponsored graduate course "The Commons: History, Sustainability, Activism
James Gleick, La théorie du chaos vers une nouvelle science, Paris, Albin Michel 1989
No full textZaoual H. James Gleick, La théorie du chaos vers une nouvelle science, Paris, Albin Michel 1989. In: L'Homme et la société, N. 102, 1991. État et société civile. pp. 144-146
The information: a history, a theory, a flood
No full textWinner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code. In 'The Information' James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the 'bit', it is a fascinating account of the modern age's defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives
Time travel: a history
No full textFrom the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book and an international sensation: The Time Machine. It was an era when a host of forces was converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological: the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. James Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea that becomes part of contemporary culture—from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Jorge Luis Borges to Woody Allen. He investigates the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future
James Gleick: Informacja: bit, wszechświat, rewolucja, Kraków 2012
No full textReview of a book answering the question what exactly is information? Gleick takes the reader from the first communication systems such as tom-toms, up to the present day, when we all unconsciously have become experts in everything, and the problem is not the lack of information, but its excess. Gleick mentions some of the forgotten geniuses and visionaries responsible for how we understand the information today and how we use it.Recenzja książki odpowiadającej na pytanie, czym właściwie jest informacja? Gleick prowadzi czytelnika od pierwszych systemów komunikacyjnych, takich jak tam-tamy, aż do współczesności, kiedy wszyscy bezwiednie staliśmy się ekspertami od wszystkiego, a problemem nie jest brak informacji, ale jej nadmiar. Przybliża sylwetki częstokroć zapomnianych geniuszy i wizjonerów odpowiedzialnych za to, jak rozumiemy dzisiaj informację i jak się nią posługujemy
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