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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

By James Gleick
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Unabridged — 16 hours, 40 minutes
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By James Gleick
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Unabridged — 16 hours, 40 minutes
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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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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...

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