Narrator Rob Shapiro

James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Ge.nius, 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 .talk.ing 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 develop.ment of our modern understanding of
information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great
mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the po.et.s brilliant and doomed daughter, who
became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan
Turing; and Claude Shannon, the cre.ator of information theory itself.

And then the information age comes upon us. Citi.zens of this world become
experts willy-nilly: aficiona.dos 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.

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