by James Gleick
Gleick traces the idea of information from African talking drums and written alphabets through Babbage's engines and Shannon's information theory to today's digital flood. He shows how 'information' became a measurable physical quantity that underlies communication, computation, genetics, and even our models of physical law.
In this collection, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood references 4 other books.
It draws on Chaos, A Brief History of Time and The Selfish Gene.
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Gleick explicitly builds on his own earlier Chaos, extending its argument that information and nonlinearity are fundamental to complex systems into a full history of the information concept.
Gleick discusses Hawking and the black-hole information paradox described in A Brief History of Time as a case where physics itself is reformulated in informational terms.
Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is cited as the touchstone for treating genes as information-carrying replicators, a view that shapes Gleick's chapter on biology and information.
The Blind Watchmaker is invoked alongside The Selfish Gene as Dawkins's extension of the 'life is digital information' thesis that Gleick places at the heart of modern biology.
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