詹姆斯•格雷克(James Gleick),生于1954年,本科毕业于哈佛学院,曾长期在《纽约时报》担任记者和编辑,并多年为《时代》周刊撰写技术专栏。1987年,他的首部作品《混沌:开创新科学》入围了美国国家图书奖和普利策奖的决赛,并成为畅销书,使得“混沌”、“蝴蝶效应”的说法家喻户晓,现已销售超过百万册。其后他又陆续出版了《费曼传:1000年才出一个的科学鬼才》(1992)、《越来越快:飞奔的时代飞奔的一切》(1999)、《牛顿传》(2003)等书,相继被翻译成了二十多种语言。
他是最早一批投入Internet创业热潮的人。1993年11月,他与合作者联合推出了Pipeline互联网接入服务,率先提供了用户友好的图形界面。十四个月后,Pipeline以一千万美元股票的价格出售。
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. An 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. James Gleick is our leading chronicler of science and modern technology. His first book, Chaos, a National Book Award finalist, has been translated into twenty-five languages. His best-selling biographies, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton, were short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. The Information was seven years in the making. Gleick divides his time between New York and Florida.
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。
评分假期把《信息简史》看完了,说实话,很少给一本书打豆瓣的五星了,这本值。 看出了一点《失控》的感觉,只不过,这本更垂直,从信息的角度,贯穿了各个学科,还是那句上学的时候就深深认同的话: 《生物医学知识整合论》——是我们人类的科学活动而不是机体本身把机体分解为量...
评分 评分 评分我们每天都在接触无数的信息,它们如同洪流一般将我们淹没,很多时候让我们不知所措。那么信息究竟是什么?该如何来度量?它的过去和未来究竟是怎样的?我们可以从格雷克(James Gleick)的这本《信息简史》中略窥一二。 从非洲的鼓声到计算机中的电路,信息的载体经历了诸多的...
some interesting information conveyed through highly redundant prose
评分some interesting information conveyed through highly redundant prose
评分近现代着墨太少了,量子信息讲得太浅。
评分这个夏天 莫名其妙献给Shannon Wiener McLuhan...
评分这个夏天 莫名其妙献给Shannon Wiener McLuhan...
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