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James Gleick

Né(e): August 01, 1954 – New York City, New York, United States

James Gleick is an American author and historian of science renowned for his works exploring the impact of science and technology, notably Chaos: Making a New Science and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. His books have been finalists for major awards and translated into over twenty-five languages, significantly shaping public understanding of scientific ideas.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

James Gleick, born in New York City in 1954, emerged as one of America’s most influential science writers and popular historians of science. Raised in an intellectually vibrant environment, he attended Harvard College, where he studied English and linguistics and served as an editor for The Harvard Crimson, graduating in 1976. A pivotal early moment in Gleick’s career was his move to Minneapolis to help found the alternative newspaper Metropolis, but after its brief existence he returned to New York and joined The New York Times, eventually spending a decade there as a reporter and editor on the metropolitan desk.

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Citations

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When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive
-The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it
-Chaos: Making a New Science
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It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness
-The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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The universe is computing its own destiny
-The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility
-Chaos: Making a New Science
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Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself
-The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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Science was constructed against a lot of nonsense
-Chaos: Making a New Science
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Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few
-Chaos: Making a New Science
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Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom
-The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity
-Chaos: Making a New Science

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