A rarity! I only got one! It is, however, a most interesting one: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, by James Gleick. From the Amazon link, here’s what Publishers Weekly says about it: “. . . Gleick leads us on a journey from one form of communicating information to another, beginning with African tribes’ use of drums and including along the way scientists like Samuel B. Morse, who invented the telegraph; Norbert Wiener, who developed cybernetics; and Ada Byron, the great Romantic poet’s daughter, who collaborated with Charles Babbage in developing the first mechanical computer. Gleick’s exceptional history of culture concludes that information is indeed the blood, the fuel, and the vital principle on which our world runs.”

Since I’ve basically been making a living from providing information to my bosses, colleagues and clients for the past thirty years, I agree with that premise. It will be interesting to see how he arrives at that conclusion.