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It covers the genesis of our current information age. A history, a theory, a flood met up with sarah crown at the edinburgh international book. Making a new science by gleick, james online on amazon. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for the new york times, founded an early internet portal, the pipeline, and has written several books of popular science, including the information. Three of these books have been pulitzer prize and national book award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages. From the acclaimed author of the information and chaos, a mindbending exploration of time travel.
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