Recommended: The Information

The Information, by James Gleick, is an exploration of the evolution of information from the earliest steps of translating spoken language to writing symbols up to present day quantum processing. Gleick leads us through the evolution of information, exploring the personalities of the key players – Einstein, Shannon, Turing, and many others – while explaining the increasingly complex ideas in terms (mostly) accessible to the layman, but still of interest to the expert in the field. A very good book (see details in the annotated book list on the sidebar)