Interview with James Gleick about his new book on the history of Time Travel
by Barry Ritholtz from on (#23T6J)
5 years ago, Boing Boing described James Gleick's The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood as "a jaw-dropping tour de force history of information theory... The Information isn't just a natural history of a powerful idea; it embodies and transmits that idea, it is a vector for its memes (as Dawkins has it), and it is a toolkit for disassembling the world. It is a book that vibrates with excitement, and it transmits that excited vibration with very little signal loss. It is a wonder." (more")