![]() But more than that, our minds, bodies and reality are information. Now this is hard for us to comprehend because we’re used to the world wide web, but the history of our species is a history of conceptual breakthroughs dealing with information. They couldn’t comprehend how information could be translated from words on the paper, to electrical pulses of dots and dashes that would travel along a wire. Many people expected to see their message to go off, leave the building. When the telegraph was first developed, people would go to the telegraph office and write down a message and give it to the operator who would key it in and then act finished. ![]() Here’s one anecdote from the book that might help. Unless you have a fairly good education it’s doubtful you’ll truly comprehend this book, but there’s plenty of easy to understand history for the non-scientific minded to get the gist of things. We live in accelerating times that are hard to comprehend – the flow of information is like a category 5 hurricane that has stationed itself permanently over our lives, never leaving, and only intensifying. It’s not an easy read, but if you’ve ever felt information overload this book will help explain how and why it’s happening. ![]() I’m not saying The Information is the best science book in a decade, but if you don’t read much about science then this book is for you. If you read only one science book in a decade The Information by James Gleick should be it. ![]()
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