James Gleick

En los años ochenta físicos, biólogos, astrónomos y economistas crearon un modo de comprender la complejidad en la naturaleza. La nueva ciencia, llamada caos, ofrece un método para ver orden donde antes solo se observaba azar e irregularidad, traspasando las disciplinas cientificas tradicionales y enlazando especies inconexas de desorden, desde la turbulencia del tiempo atmosferico a los complicados ritmos del corazon humano, desde el diseño de los copos de nieve a los torbellinos arenosos del desierto. A pesar de surgir de una ardua actividad matematica, el caos es un saber del mundo cotidiano: como se forman las nubes, por que se eleva el humo o cual es la razon de que el agua se arremoline en los rios. Caos - ya un clasico de la divulgacion cientifica- es el relato de una idea que espanto y embrujo a los cientificos que se dedicaron a comprobarla. Acabada la lectura de Caos, no se ve el mundo con los mismos ojos.

Durante la pasada década, los fisicos, biólogos, astrónomos y economistas crearon un modo de comprender el desarrollo de la complejidad en la naturaleza. La nueva ciencia, llamada caos, ofrece un método para ver orden y pauta donde antes solo se observaba

James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code. In The Information James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the 'bit', it is a fascinating account of the modern age's defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives.

Time is the datum that rules our lives. The frenetic purpose - more than we want to admit - is to save time. Think of one of those conveniences that best conveys the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds: the microwave oven. In your "hurry sickness" you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice. Do you stand at the microwave for that minute and a half? Or is that long enough to make a quick call or run in the next room to finish paying a bill? If haste is the gas pedal for the pace of our lives, then multi-tasking is overdrive. This work dissects our unceasing daily struggle to squeeze as much as we can - but never enough - into the 1440 minutes of each day. Speed is the key strategy for saving time, and James Gleick shows us how in just about every area - from business cycle time to beeper medicine, from Federal Express to quick playback buttons on answering machines, from the pace of television to our growing need to do two things at once, speed has become the experience we all have in common - it, more than the message, is what connects us.

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"La información es a la naturaleza, historia y significado de los datos lo que la playa a la arena." New York TimesVivimos en el mundo de la información y el conocimiento, pero, aunque manejamos cotidianamente moviles y ordenadores, no entendemos del todo lo que esto significa.En un libro ambicioso y apasionante, James Gleick comienza contandonos una historia que ha cambiado la naturaleza de la conciencia humana, desde los tambores africanos o la invencion de la ordenacion alfabetica de las palabras hasta los avances mas recientes de la tecnologia informatica. Examina despues como se desarrollaron las ideas en que se ha basado este avance, llevandonos, dice el profesor Nunberg,del demonio de Maxwell al teorema de Godel, de los agujeros negros a los genes egoistas, explicando con claridad los mas complejos principios, e ilustrandolos con las vidas de sus protagonistas, de Charles Babbage a Alan Turing o a Claude Shannon. Y concluye analizando lo que representa para nuestras vidas la agobiadora inundacion de informaciones que nos rodea.Como ha dicho Josh Rothman, este esun libro bellamente escrito y muy documentado que consigue sorprendernos continuamente.

Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeralan unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them namesmass, gravity, velocitythings our science now takes for granted. Inspired by Aristotle, spurred on by Galileos discoveries and the philosophy of Descartes, Newton grasped the intangible and dared to take its measure, a leap of the mind unparalleled in his generation.James Gleick, the author of Chaos and Genius, and one of the most acclaimed science writers of his generation, brings the reader into Newtons reclusive life and provides startlingly clear explanations of the concepts that changed forever our perception of bodies, rest, and motionideas so basic to the twenty-first century, it can truly be said: We are all Newtonians.

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the worlds leading prize for popular science writing. This enhanced e-book version contains twelve animations created by graphic design students from the world renowned Central Saint Martins college of Art and Design. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code. In The Information James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the bit, it is a fascinating account of the modern ages defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives. Twelve animations have been embedded into the enhanced e-book alongside a part of the book that the students felt most inspired by. Not only does this add another dimension to Gleicks writing, it also allows the reader to see how others interpret and engage in a visual sense. An innovative example of text and moving image, The Information enhanced e-book is a must have timeline of communication design.

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleicks story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilisations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the worlds leading prize for popular science writing. This enhanced e-book version contains twelve animations created by graphic design students from the world renowned Central Saint Martins college of Art and Design. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code. In The Information James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the bit, it is a fascinating account of the modern ages defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives. Twelve animations have been embedded into the enhanced e-book alongside a part of the book that the students felt most inspired by. Not only does this add another dimension to Gleicks writing, it also allows the reader to see how others interpret and engage in a visual sense. An innovative example of text and moving image, The Information enhanced e-book is a must have timeline of communication design.

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the worlds leading prize for popular science writing. This enhanced e-book version contains twelve animations created by graphic design students from the world renowned Central Saint Martins college of Art and Design. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code. In The Information James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the bit, it is a fascinating account of the modern ages defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives. Twelve animations have been embedded into the enhanced e-book alongside a part of the book that the students felt most inspired by. Not only does this add another dimension to Gleicks writing, it also allows the reader to see how others interpret and engage in a visual sense. An innovative example of text and moving image, The Information enhanced e-book is a must have timeline of communication design.

From the New York Times bestselling author, an extraordinary history of the telephone, and how we fell in and out of love with a technology that changed our lives.One hundred and fifty years ago, the telephone burst onto the world stage like magic, a supernatural instrument bringing voices from afar. Instantly, the ability to speak across vast distances began to transform every part of life: from business organisation to military tactics, from news gathering to sex work.Telephones, though an extraordinary invention, became so ubiquitous in offices and on streets, on bedside tables and kitchen walls that they came to seem ordinary. People forgot how they ever lived without them.In The Telephone, renowned science historian and bestselling author James Gleick explores myths about the telephones invention and reveals the corrupt scheming and ruthless tactics of those who sought to make money from it.As dial telephones, landlines, telephone books and telephone booths vanish into the past, he shows how this commonplace object ushered in the information age, and changed not only the world but who we are as human beings.PRAISE FOR JAMES GLEICKSome writers excel at crafting a historical narrative, others at elucidating esoteric theories, still others at humanizing scientists. Gleick is a master of all these skills The Wall Street JournalGleick does what only the best science writers can do: take a subject of which most of us are only peripherally aware and put it at the center of the universe Time

From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africas talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live.A New York Times Notable BookA Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the YearWinner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

Best Books of 2016BOSTON GLOBE * THE ATLANTICFrom the acclaimed bestselling author of The Information and Chaos comes this enthralling history of time travela concept that has preoccupied physicists and storytellers over the course of the last century. James Gleick delivers a mind-bending exploration of time travelfrom its origins in literature and science to its influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleick vividly explores physics, technology, philosophy, and art as each relates to time travel and tells the story of the concepts cultural evolutionsfrom H.G. Wells to Doctor Who, from Proust to Woody Allen. He takes a close look at the porous boundary between science fiction and modern physics, and, finally, delves into what it all means in our own moment in timethe world of the instantaneous, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.