Information

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Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. n n n We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code. n n n In `The Information' James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the `bit', it is a fascinating account of the modern age's defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives. n