James Gleick este absolvent de Harvard, fondator al revistei “Metropolis”, redactor, timp de zece ani, la New York Times \u015fi conferen\u0163iar la Universitatea din Princeton, impus la nivel interna\u0163ional prin dou\u0103 volume de referin\u0163\u0103, “Chaos” \u015fi “Isaac Newton”, devenite bestseller-uri de popularizare a \u015ftiin\u0163ei, construie\u015fte \u00een acest volum un roman al informa\u0163iei, o istorie exhaustiv\u0103 a unui subiect aparent banal, dar, \u00een fapt, de o complexitate ame\u0163itoare. Informa\u0163ia, adic\u0103 eroina acestei c\u0103r\u0163i, personajul ei principal, str\u0103bate, sub ochii no\u015ftri, milenii \u00eentregi \u015fi o infinitate de locuri.<\/p>\n
Pornim, o dat\u0103 cu omenirea, din Africa, de la primele semne ale limbajului articulat, de la tobele vorbitoare \u015fi ajungem \u00een spa\u0163iile unde s-a folosit pentru \u00eent\u00e2ia oar\u0103 scrisul \u015fi alfabetul, ulterior trecem prin Grecia, pentru ca apoi s\u0103 poposim \u00een Anglia, ca s\u0103 asist\u0103m la elaborarea celor dint\u00e2i dic\u0163ionare \u015fi la inventarea ma\u015finii diferen\u0163iale de c\u0103tre Charles Babbage, la inventarea cartelei perforate, la firele de telegraf \u015fi la toate acele elemente de tehnologie care care jucat, la vremea lor, un rol la \u0163eserea p\u00e2nzei de p\u0103ianjen a informa\u0163iei \u00een care suntem, f\u0103r\u0103 putin\u0163\u0103 de sc\u0103pare, prin\u015fi. Totul pentru a ajunge la Claude Shannon, cel care s-a apropiat cel mai mult de o teorie unificat\u0103 a informa\u0163iei, folosindu-se de matematici. Inventatorul bitului, unitatea de m\u0103sur\u0103 care serve\u015fte la cuantificarea informa\u0163iei, a descoperit c\u0103 informa\u0163ia este intrinsec legat\u0103 de ordine \u015fi de nesiguran\u0163\u0103, \u015fi, tocmai de aceea, \u015fi de entropie, a\u015fa cum al\u0163ii au legat-o de fizic\u0103, de mecanica cuantica sau au spus c\u0103 reprezint\u0103 \u00eens\u0103\u015fi via\u0163a.<\/p>\n
Ambi\u0163ia lui Gleick nu este s\u0103 trag\u0103 concluzii definitive, ci s\u0103 ne restituie toate interoga\u0163iile majore care i-au fr\u0103m\u00e2ntat pe oamenii de \u015ftiin\u0163\u0103 de-a lungul veacurilor \u00een leg\u0103tur\u0103 cu Domnia sa, Informa\u0163ia. O carte pe c\u00e2t de util\u0103, pe at\u00e2t de bine scris\u0103 \u015fi de delectant\u0103. \u015etim, fiecare dintre noi, despre scurgerea de informa\u0163ii, despre analiza, trierea, ajustarea \u015fi filtrarea lor. Avem iPaduri \u015fi ecrane cu plasm\u0103, \u015fi, cum ni se spune mereu, tr\u0103im \u00een era informa\u0163iei. At\u00e2ta doar c\u0103 ea, informa\u0163ia, a fost mereu acolo, invad\u00e2nd lumea str\u0103mo\u015filor no\u015ftri \u015fi lu\u00e2nd forme variate, de la solide la eterice, de la lespezile funerare de granit din antichitate, la \u015foaptele curtenilor din Evul Mediu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7194],"tags":[7193,9647,21528,27231,15474,242,27230],"class_list":["post-54631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carte","tag-carte","tag-comunicare","tag-editura-publica","tag-informatia","tag-ipad","tag-istorie","tag-james-gleick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71170,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54631\/revisions\/71170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nJames Gleick, “Informa\u0163ia, o istorie, o teorie, o rev\u0103rsare”, Editura Publica, Bucure\u015fti, 2012<\/u>
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