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We are witnessing a remarkable convergence of discoveries on the frontier of science that supports astrologys model of a living, evolving universe and our place in it. Upon graduating from harvard in 1976, he founded metropolis, a weekly minneapolis newspaper, and spent the next decade working at the new york times. When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive. To accomplish that he opens the book by discussing the advent of drumming, signals, telegraph, telephone and the computer. Making a new science by james gleick is the story of how chaos theory was popularized in. Acclaimed science writer james gleick presents an eyeopening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. Acclaimed science writer james gleick presents an eyeopening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human. Chaos is a kind of science that deals with the parts of the world that are unpredictable, apparently random.
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