B C, Before Computers
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What follows is a short list of books and essays (and one film) that have inspired me and that I have mentioned in this book for one reason or another. But I must give one reference pride of place as my go-to source of first and often only resort:
Wikipedia: Many articles, by many authors.
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Jim Al-Khalili, Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science (Penguin, 2012).
Isaac Asimov, Foundaton Trilogy (Gnome Press, 1951).
Antonio Badia, The Information Manifold: Why Computers Can’t Solve Algorithmic Bias and Fake News (MIT Press, 2019).
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12061.001.0001
The Venerable Bede, On the Reckoning of Time (c. 723).
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine, 1953).
Vera Britain, Testament of Youth (Victor Gollancz, 1933).
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).
James Essinger, Jacquard’s Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Luciano Floridi, Information: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010).
https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199551378.001.0001
James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Fourth Estate, 2011).
Stephen Jay Gould, ‘The Panda’s Thumb of Technology’, in Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History (Penguin, 1992).
GPO Film Unit, Night Mail (1936).
Robert Kaplan, The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero (Allen Lane, 1999).
John Man, Alphabeta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World (Headline, 2000).
John Man, The Gutenberg Revolution: The story of a genius and an invention that changed the world (Review, 2002).
Cyril Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson’s Law: The Pursuit of Progress (Houghton Mifflin, 1957).
Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind (Harper, 1994).
Andrew Robinson, The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms (Thames & Hudson, 1995; 2nd ed 2007).
David Rothenberg, Hand’s End: Technology and the Limits of Nature (University of California Press, 1995).
Paul Saenger, Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading (Stanford University Press, 2000).
Claude Shannon, ‘A Mathematical Theory of Communication’ The Bell System Technical Journal XXVII, No. 3 (July 1948), pp. 379–423.
Adam Silverstein, Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Fourth Estate, 1999).
Tom Standage, The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers (Walker, 1998).
JoAnne Yates, ‘Co-evolution of Information-Processing Technology and Use: Interaction between the Life Insurance and Tabulating Industries’ The Business History Review 67, No. 1 (Spring, 1993), pp. 1–51.
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