Ascent of information : (Record no. 92302)
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| fixed length control field | 02103nam a22002057a 4500 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20241129162250.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 240406b2021 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780593087251 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 003.54 SCH-C |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Scharf, Caleb |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Ascent of information : |
| Remainder of title | how data rules the world / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Caleb Scharf |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Riverhead Book |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 340 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | INR |
| Price amount | 899.00 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Human-computer interaction |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Human-machine systems |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Information Theory |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Man-Machine Systems |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | 003-007 | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | General Stack (For lending) | 30/03/2024 | 1 | 003.54 SCH-C | 48677 | 12/08/2025 | 20/01/2025 | 20/01/2025 | 06/04/2024 | Books |