{"id":7346,"date":"2011-09-01T12:48:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T17:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7346"},"modified":"2011-09-01T12:48:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T17:48:40","slug":"the-information-a-history-a-theory-a-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/01\/the-information-a-history-a-theory-a-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a title=\"Radio interview with James Gleick\" href=\"http:\/\/onpoint.wbur.org\/2011\/03\/18\/james-gleick\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>episode of On Point<\/strong><\/a> with Tom Ashbrook is an interview with James Gleick author of the book <a title=\"Amazon.com's listing of the book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Information-History-Theory-Flood\/dp\/0375423729\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A quote from the prologue of the book might give you a hint as to why you might be interested in listening to the interview.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bit is a fundamental particle of a different sort: not just tiny but abstract\u2014a binary digit, a flip-flop, a yes-or-no. It is insubstantial, yet as scientists finally come to understand information, they wonder whether it may be primary: more fundamental than matter itself. They suggest that the bit is the irreducible kernel and that information forms the very core of existence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After listening to the interview, you may want to read the book. You may also be interested in my previous blog post about an earlier work by James Gleick, <a title=\"Previous Post about an earlier book by Gleick\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/07\/12\/chaos-making-a-new-science\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chaos: Making a New Science<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to RichardH for telling me about this episode of <em>On Point<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode of On Point with Tom Ashbrook is an interview with James Gleick author of the book The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood. A quote from the prologue of the book might give you a hint as to why you might be interested in listening to the interview. The bit is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7347,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions\/7347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}