{"id":7694,"date":"2011-01-01T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/?p=7694"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:17:38","slug":"james-gleick-the-information-a-history-a-theory-a-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materialinmaterial.org\/en\/james-gleick-the-information-a-history-a-theory-a-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gleick, The information. A history, a theory, a flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7694\" class=\"elementor elementor-7694\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1f9f199 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1f9f199\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-95e7399\" data-id=\"95e7399\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42b64f9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"42b64f9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>ID et.al.: EI024; Secci\u00f3n: Investigaci\u00f3n<\/p><p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3380945 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3380945\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #000000;\">With words we begin to leave traces behind us like breadcrumbs: memories in symbols for others to follow. Ants deploy their pheromones, trails of chemical information.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6957de4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6957de4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #191919; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">James Gleick (2011). <\/span><i style=\"color: #191919; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">The information. A history, a theory, a flood.<\/i><span style=\"color: #191919; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse;\"> USA: Vintage books. p. 31.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9d87eaf elementor-widget-divider--separator-type-pattern elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"9d87eaf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\" style=\"--divider-pattern-url: url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=&#039;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&#039; preserveAspectRatio=&#039;none&#039; overflow=&#039;visible&#039; height=&#039;100%&#039; viewBox=&#039;0 0 24 24&#039; fill=&#039;none&#039; stroke=&#039;black&#039; stroke-width=&#039;1&#039; stroke-linecap=&#039;square&#039; stroke-miterlimit=&#039;10&#039;%3E%3Cpath d=&#039;M0,6c6,0,0.9,11.1,6.9,11.1S18,6,24,6&#039;\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;);\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5431b3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c5431b3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">The social consequences could not have been predicted, but some were observed and appreciated almost immediately. People&#8217;s sense of the weather began to change -weather, that is, as a generalization, an abstraction.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>&#8220;&#8230;The telegraph enabled people to think of weather as a widespread and interconnected affair, rather than an assortement of local surprises.&#8221; The phenomena of the atmosphere, the mysteries of meteors, the cause and effect of skiey combinations, are no longer matters of superstition or of panic to the husbandman, the sailor or the shepherd,&#8221;\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a475148 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a475148\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #191919; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">James Gleick (2011). <\/span><i style=\"color: #191919; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">The information. 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