From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality-the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
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