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03090aam a2200361 i 4500 001 F9EEB168E39F11EB9B53DC062EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210713010105 008 201101t20212021nyua e b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020046554 020 $a 0593087240 020 $a 9780593087244 035 $a (OCoLC)1202297934 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d JAS $d GL4 $d IWP $d SILO 100 1 $a Scharf, Caleb A., $d 1968- 245 14 $a The ascent of information : $b books, bits, genes, machines, and life's unending algorithm / $c Caleb Scharf. 264 1 $a New York : $b Riverhead Books, $c 2021. 300 $a 340 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Our eternal data -- The burden of an idea -- In sickness and in health -- An ever more tangled bank -- Genes, memes, and dreams -- The information river -- Life made machine -- The great blending -- A universe of dataomes. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Information theory. 650 0 $a Human-computer interaction. 650 0 $a Human-machine systems. 941 $a 6 952 $l CPPC926 $d 20231111014021.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012012319.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909064744.0 952 $l ORAX826 $d 20211002010142.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20210902010634.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20210713014403.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F9EEB168E39F11EB9B53DC062EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search