The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm

“Full of fascinating insights drawn from an impressive range of disciplines, The Ascent of Information casts the familiar and the foreign in a dramatic new light.” -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe

Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants.

One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion b...