James Gleick’s latest book is The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. He is working on a history of time travel.
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Time Regained!
June 6, 2013
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
by Lee Smolin
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How Google Dominates Us
August 18, 2011
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
by Steven Levy
I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
by Douglas Edwards
The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry)
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Search & Destroy: Why You Can’t Trust Google Inc.
by Scott Cleland with Ira Brodsky
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‘If Shakespeare Had Been Able to Google…’
December 18, 2008
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory by Roy Blount Jr.
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea
The First English Dictionary, 1604 by Robert Cawdrey, with an introduction by John Simpson
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Wikipedia's Women Problem
April 29, 2013
Hundreds of novelists who happen to be female were being systematically removed from the Wikipedia category “American novelists” and assigned to the category “American women novelists.” Who’s responsible?
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Librarians of the Twitterverse
January 16, 2013
The Library of Congress is now stockpiling the entire corpus of all public tweets. But effectively searching this mass of unstructured data, this barnyard of straw, will be more difficult than people may think.
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The Information Palace
December 8, 2010
The word “information” has grown urgent and problematic—a signpost seen everywhere, freighted with new meaning and import. We hardly need the lexicographers of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell us that, but after all, this is what they live for.
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Christian Marclay's 'The Clock'
July 13, 2012 – August 1, 2012
Christian Marclay’s day- and night-long masterpiece, composed of thousands of clips spanning the history of cinema, forms a kaleidoscopic lens into the culture’s experience of time.