Traces the history of information beginning with the invention of alphabets and continuing to the various technologies today that flood the average person with information. Profiles key persons, inventions, and theories; and discusses the future of information.
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Drums that talk -- Persistence of the word -- Two wordbooks -- To throw the powers of thought into wheel-work -- A nervous system for the Earth -- New wires, new logic -- Information theory -- The informational turn -- Entropy and its demons -- Life's own code -- Into the meme pool -- The sense of randomness -- Information is physical -- After the flood -- New news every day.