The Information pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
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 )
- 信息论
- 科普
- 信息
- 计算机
- 历史
- 美国
- JamesGleick
- 科学
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.
具体描述
读后感
原本以为《信息简史》是一本有关 IT 史的书，作为 IT 从业者的我们，当然需要拜读一下。 在我们接受的教育中，基本上信息史就是等同于计算机历史。而在这本书中，计算机只是信息的一个载体，计算机或许是信息发展历史上最重要的一个载体，但绝不是全部，本书只用了最后一节来...
评分作者试图把信息作为一个独立的对象抽象出来。非洲传递信息的鼓声是比较有意思的一种信息。然后就是对文字的历史的简述。书中一半篇幅讲的是计算机的史前史，从第一台机械计算机说起。又聊到电话电报，熵，基因的基本单位和信息。 个人感觉大致可以把这本书看作一部计算机史前史。
评分原书英文名为 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood，直译过来是：《信息：一段历史，一个理论，一场洪流》。利用四个名词及其背后映射的意义空间来概括全书，中文版直接压缩为「简史」，损失了很多意味。作者詹姆斯·格雷克为著名的科普畅销书作家，本书让他花费了...
评分这是一本关于信息的历史书，有料有趣，作者写了七年，中文版做了两年。这本书是图灵主编武卫东亲自推荐给我的，我问他为什么花了这么久，他说「要对得起原著」。 我花了大概三个周读完，期间查阅了许多相关的资料。我从这本书里收获了太多东西，以至于读后我盯着四五个写着主...
评分用户评价
For pop sci it's very good - and I am beginning to see the source of my trouble. Expecting a good science reading list from a literary site is ridiculous. SB+
评分Dull and dry; Overly philosophical yet not scientific; Sometimes flawy. Gleick probably knows writing history well but apparently he doesn't understand science well enough to discuss math. There are many interesting paradoxes/axioms/theories mentioned in this book but he just failed to explain them in the very correct way.
评分好看
评分2014-4-1；看不动啊。涉及历史的英文读起来很难啊。里面涉及到数学、悖论。数学也是一种语言啊。
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。
相关图书
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息，本站不存储任何数据与内容，任何内容与数据均与本站无关，如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度，google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.quotespace.org All Rights Reserved. 小美书屋 版权所有