The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Gleick speaks of things one has heard of before, but he does it in such an elegant and explanatory style, rich of anecdotes and never boring. He tells the story of information, its transmission, compression, quantification, definition and spins a web from early telegraph technologies, to redundancies in language, Claude Shannon's formula, how information ends up being entropy and the opposite of entropy, universal Turing machines, information never not being physical and today's information overload.