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Well-Tempered Clavier
(Bach),
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4

Western Union Telegraph Company

Weyl, Hermann,
prl.1
,
6.1

What Is Life?
(Schrödinger)

Wheatstone, Charles,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

Wheeler, John Archibald,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3

Whitehead, Alfred North,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
7.1

Whitman, Walt,
epl.1
,
epl.2

Whitmore, Georgiana

Wiener, Norbert,
prl.1
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8.1
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8.2
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8.3
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8.4
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8.5
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8.6
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8.7
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8.8
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8.9
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8.10
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8.11
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8.12
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8.13
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8.14
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8.15
,
8.16
,
8.17
,
8.18
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
12.1

Wikipedia,
12.1
,
12.2
,
14.1
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14.2
,
14.3
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14.4
,
14.5
,
14.6
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14.7
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14.8
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14.9
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14.10
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14.11
,
14.12
,
15.1
,
epl.1

Wilkes, Charles

Wilkins, John,
5.1
,
5.2

Wilson, Edward O.

Wilson, Thomas

wire fences,
6.1
,
6.2

Wisdom of Crowds
(Surowiecki)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
3.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
8.1

World Brain
(Wells)

World Congress of Universal Documentation

World War II,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

Wright, Sylvia

writing

abstract thinking and

alphabet-based,
2.1
,
2.2

criticism of communicative capacity of,
2.1
,
2.2

cryptography and,
5.1
,
5.2

cuneiform,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
2.6
,
2.7

in development of mathematics,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5

extension of time and space in

historical development of,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5

levels of representation in

memory and,
2.1
,
2.2

modes and uses of information arising from,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4

origins of logic in,
2.1
,
2.2

second age of orality and,
2.1
,
2.2

self-awareness in,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

as technology

thinking and,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5

Wyman, Bill,
14.1
,
14.2

Wynter, Andrew,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4

X System,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
7.1

Yahoo!

Yaunde language

YouTube

ALSO BY JAMES GLEICK

Chaos: Making a New Science

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything

What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier

Isaac Newton

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James Gleick was born in New York City in 1954. His previous books include
Chaos
and
Genius
, both Pulitzer Prize finalists and National Book Award nominees. His last book,
Isaac Newton
, was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist. They have been translated into more than twenty languages. His Web site is at
www.around.com
.

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

4.1
Photograph courtesy of the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

6.1
The New York Times Archive/Redux

7.1
Copyright Robert Lord

7.2
Reprinted with permission from
Journal Franklin Institute
, vol. 262, E. F. Moore and C. E. Shannon, “Reliable Circuits Using Less Reliable Rays,” pp. 191–208, © 1956, with permission from Elsevier.