The ascent of information : how data rules the world
Scharf, Caleb, 1968-2022
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One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we've failed to ask exactly why we're expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive.
Main title:
The ascent of information : how data rules the world / Caleb Scharf.
Author:
Scharf, Caleb, 1968-, author
Imprint:
New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.
Collation:
352 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2021.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780593087251 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
003.54
Language:
English
BRN:
2538389
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