Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do -… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Type 'What is th' and faster than you can find the 'e' Google is sending choices back at you: 'What is the… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“No one has even a definitive spelling for Cawdrey’s name (Cowdrey, Cawdry). But then, no one agreed on the spelling of most names: they… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Where, then, is any particular gene—say, the gene for long legs in humans? This is a little like asking where is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. A theoretical physicist acts like a very clever coding algorithm.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Your body moves always in the present, the dividing line between the past and the future, but your mind is more free. It can… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
