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James Gleick

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Informace


Informace je v určitém smyslu knihou o všem, co je páteří naší civilizace: o telekomunikaci, ochranných známkách, počítačích, genetice, spamu a memech, kompresi dat, kvantové mechanice i šifrách, slovnících, náhodě, entropii i řetězových dopisech. Zkušený autor kultovní knihy Chaos a řady dalších publikací uchopil téma „informace“ skutečně od základu – knihu otevírá půvabná kapitola o „dálkové řeči“ afrických bubeníků (komunikačnímu kanálu, jehož kapacitě se schopnosti naší civilizace vyrovnaly až ke konci 19. století) a v řadě pestrých kapitol nás seznamuje s historií a hlavními aspekty informačního věku. Co má s moderní civilizací společného klínopis, bizarní projekt francouzských mechanických telegrafů či neméně bizarní mechanický počítač Charlese Babbagea? Uvidíme, že velmi mnoho. Zdánlivě mrtvá historická témata autor oživuje moderním pohledem teorie informace a v často překvapivých paralelách ukazuje, jak se současná civilizace dostala tam, kde nyní je. Informace je pozoruhodná kniha: abyste se do ní mohli ponořit a vychutnat její potenciál, nepotřebujete žádné zvláštní vzdělání, na druhé straně však otevře nikoli jeden, ale celou řadu nových horizontů i ostřílenému profesionálnímu informatikovi.
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26,02 € 27,39 €

Information


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.
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18,00 € 18,95 €

Time Travel


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. Gleick's 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.
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20,85 € 21,95 €

Time Travel


From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel. Gleick's 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.
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11,88 € 12,50 €