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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 )
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- 计算机
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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.
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当电报出现时，一些人像发现了新大陆，感叹道：“电报传递信息，和人体中神经传递信息的现象很相似。所以说，电报网就是地球的神经系统啊！” 当电话出现时，另一些人似乎完全不知道上面的隐喻，再一次感叹道：“电话传递信息，和人体中神经传递信息的现象很相似。所以说，电...
评分什么是“信息”？“信息”的本质是什么？“信息”将会带领我们走向何方？在这本书里面，或许你会找到答案。 在不算很久以前，人类是通过各种声音手势来比划沟通的，那时候还没有文字，所有的沟通都是当下的，传达完了就消失了。这种传统在非洲的某些部落里面还保留着，他们...
评分书要一本一本地读。今天拿起《信息简史》阅读。作为曾经研究过信息问题的研究生，我对这本书有浓厚的兴趣。翻阅不到一半，感觉作者其实是用自己独特的手法展现人类文明（特别是科学）的历史。不少素材都曾经见过，通过作者的重新编排理请了信息发展的脉络。该书获得文津图书奖。
评分慢慢觉得，非虚构类的书，整体上是告诉你世界是怎么回事儿，又可分两大类：让你知道作者觉得世界是怎么回事儿（比如散文、游记、回忆录、人物传记等），让你知道世界本来是怎么回事儿（科普、历史、地理、人文等等）。 非虚构类的书，跨界阅读都是非常重要的。对于第一种...
评分第一次看到这本书时，就被丑陋的腰封给恶心住了，看着“畅销书”，“雷军”，“吴军”这些名字，我第一时间就对本书产生了怀疑：一本如此经典的书确定需要这些噱头？更狗血的是封面上那句话：“告诉我们如何在信息时代的信息爆炸中生存”，拜托，我已无力吐槽，书里面有提这个...
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题目过大。如果作者专注于信息理论就好了，写Babbage, Shannon, Wiener, Turing等人的章节都不错，但后面扯到熵、遗传学和网络文化就给人「热门科普大杂烩」的感觉。
评分有人愿意给Information Theory写一本科普读物，我感到很欣慰，当然这并不完全是我心里最期望的那种，我更愿意看到一个更从engineering perspective而不是science perspective出发的东西，所以有很多地方看得我昏昏欲睡。我一直觉得，相对于其他类别的作者，传记作家们常常会对笔下人物丧失基本客观的判断（《凯恩斯传》作者斯基德尔斯基声称凯恩斯在十二岁照片里的高颧骨和眼嘴角的柔和笑容就能显示出其将来是个不同凡响的人物。。。），对知名人物保有不可理喻的迷恋（我很怀疑Love小姐如果不是拜伦的女儿还会不会有这么多戏份），再者最烦人的就是他们对历史人物原话的不厌其烦的不厌其烦的引用，非常挫伤作品的连贯和简洁，所以我实在是不怎么喜欢这帮家伙
评分把“信息”大卸八块，追踪祖宗十八代，那些留下印记的人和事，跨约光子到黑洞，厚重的题材，优美的笔触。
评分This book covers a bunch of interesting topics that I wanna explore.
评分An over-rated book for me. Apparently, the author is not of science or engineering training. There are lots of technical terms that will be far better explained if the reader goes to any authors in that particular field. However, it shouldn't be ignored that the author does devise an organized method to present the history of information.
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