A selection of new and exciting books impacting our industry

摘要

The Information shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality-the blood, the fuel, and the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is 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.