The Information - James Gleick [265]
extension of time and space in
historical development of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
levels of representation in
memory and, 2.1, 2.2
modes and uses of information arising from, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
origins of logic in, 2.1, 2.2
second age of orality and, 2.1, 2.2
self-awareness in, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
as technology
thinking and, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Wyman, Bill, 14.1, 14.2
Wynter, Andrew, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
X System, prl.1, prl.2, 7.1
Yahoo!
Yaunde language
YouTube
ALSO BY JAMES GLEICK
Chaos: Making a New Science
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything
What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier
Isaac Newton
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Gleick was born in New York City in 1954. His previous books include Chaos and Genius, both Pulitzer Prize finalists and National Book Award nominees. His last book, Isaac Newton, was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist. They have been translated into more than twenty languages. His Web site is at www.around.com.
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
4.1 Photograph courtesy of the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
6.1 The New York Times Archive/Redux
7.1 Copyright Robert Lord
7.2 Reprinted with permission from Journal Franklin Institute, vol. 262, E. F. Moore and C. E. Shannon, “Reliable Circuits Using Less Reliable Rays,” pp. 191–208, © 1956, with permission from Elsevier.
7.3 Taken from Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers, ed. NJA Sloane & Aaron Wyner © 1993 IEEE
7.4 Taken from Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers, ed. NJA Sloane & Aaron Wyner, © 1993 IEEE
7.5 © Mary E. Shannon
8.1 Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
8.2 Keystone/Stringer/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
8.3 Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
9.1 Taken from Entropy and Energy Levels by Gasser & Richards (1974) Figs. 9.7, 9.8 pp. 117–118. By permission of Oxford University Press.
9.2 From Symbols, Signals & Noise by J. R. Pierce (Harper & Brothers, NY, 1961), p. 199.
9.3 Copyright © 2010 Stanley Angrist, reprinted by permission of Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group.
9.4 Reproduced from Fundamentals of Cybernetics, Lerner AY (Plenum Publishing Corp., NY 1975), p. 257.
9.5 Copyright © 2010 Stanley Angrist, reprinted by permission of Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
12.1 Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
13.1 Christopher Fuchs