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The Ascent Of Information
Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
Buch von Caleb Scharf
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants.

One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we've failed to ask exactly why we're expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data.

Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create-all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos-amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it's an organism that has evolved right alongside us.

This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn't just something we produce; it's the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life.

The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset, and to preserving the possibility of a human future.
Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants.

One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we've failed to ask exactly why we're expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data.

Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create-all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos-amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it's an organism that has evolved right alongside us.

This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn't just something we produce; it's the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life.

The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset, and to preserving the possibility of a human future.
Über den Autor
Caleb Scharf is the award-winning author of The Zoomable Universe, The Copernicus Complex, and Gravity's Engines, and the director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Scientific American, Nautilus, and Nature, among other publications. He lives in New York City.
Zusammenfassung
BIG QUESTIONS ABOUT BIG DATA: As more people start to question the way their information is collected and used without their knowledge, this book offers an even deeper understanding of the true nature of data.

A POWERFUL NEW IDEA: Much like the concept of memes, introduced to general readers by The Selfish Gene, Scharf's dataome provides a compelling new way to understand how information propagates.

IMAGINING EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE: The Ascent of Information offers a new framework for imagining life on other planets, with information as the fundamental unit of existence rather than DNA.

EXPERT AUTHOR AND POPULAR SCIENCE EXPLAINER: Scharf is a renowned astrobiologist, a popular blogger for Scientific American, a regular keynote speaker at scientific meetings and public venues, and a frequent guest on science-related TV shows.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: EDV
Genre: Importe, Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780593087244
ISBN-10: 0593087240
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Scharf, Caleb
Hersteller: Penguin Putnam Inc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 237 x 165 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Caleb Scharf
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,558 kg
Artikel-ID: 121094115
Über den Autor
Caleb Scharf is the award-winning author of The Zoomable Universe, The Copernicus Complex, and Gravity's Engines, and the director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Scientific American, Nautilus, and Nature, among other publications. He lives in New York City.
Zusammenfassung
BIG QUESTIONS ABOUT BIG DATA: As more people start to question the way their information is collected and used without their knowledge, this book offers an even deeper understanding of the true nature of data.

A POWERFUL NEW IDEA: Much like the concept of memes, introduced to general readers by The Selfish Gene, Scharf's dataome provides a compelling new way to understand how information propagates.

IMAGINING EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE: The Ascent of Information offers a new framework for imagining life on other planets, with information as the fundamental unit of existence rather than DNA.

EXPERT AUTHOR AND POPULAR SCIENCE EXPLAINER: Scharf is a renowned astrobiologist, a popular blogger for Scientific American, a regular keynote speaker at scientific meetings and public venues, and a frequent guest on science-related TV shows.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: EDV
Genre: Importe, Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780593087244
ISBN-10: 0593087240
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Scharf, Caleb
Hersteller: Penguin Putnam Inc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 237 x 165 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Caleb Scharf
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,558 kg
Artikel-ID: 121094115
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