We have had a lot of interest since we opened Growing Knowledge in October – Growing Knowledge the Evolution of Research – the garden is open.
And tomorrow we are lucky to have James Gleick speaking at the library. He is the author of The Information, a new book which shows how information has ‘become the modern era’s defining quality – the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world’.
The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood “talking drums” of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that, he claims, changed the very nature of human consciousness.
He will explore where the age of information is taking us, swept along by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets.
John Naughton also interviewed him in the Observer last weekend.