From
birth announcements carried by drum in 19th-century Africa to the invention of
the idea of the "bit" by a Bell Labs researcher, James Gleick -- the
author of cerebral yet addictive works such as Genius: The Life and Science of
Richard Feynman and Chaos: Making a New Science -- charts the ocean of data we are now struggling
to navigate.
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