Works about information
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Gleick's The Information is readable history and loose with the physics
Shannon's 1948 paper separated information from meaning and engineers and philosophers still argue about it
The Mathematical Theory of Communication defines the bit and says nothing about whether a message is true
Wiener's Cybernetics turned feedback into an information concept and spilled into every later discipline
Bates on the invisible substrate of information science is still assigned in doctoral seminars
A text becomes canonical in information science not by age but by how many later arguments start from it
Edward Tufte argued a chart should erase everything not carrying data and the rule still holds
Citation half-life in information science is short enough that a 1990 review reads as history
Borges's Library of Babel is the thought experiment everyone cites about combinatorial information
No single textbook covers information studies so reading lists are assembled from journal articles
Vannevar Bush described the memex in 1945 and every hypertext system traces back to As We May Think
The Social Life of Information argued in 2000 that the paperless office would not arrive and it has not
Floridi's philosophy of information asks what makes something an informational object
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