journalist and author
Journalist and author of several books, including Chaos: Making a New Science and The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood; member and former Vice President of the Authors' Guild; former reporter for the New York Times;
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James Gleick
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FROM James Gleick
Which Way, L.A.?
When Did 'Information' Become Just a Bunch of 1's and 0's? With the Library of Congress now collecting not just every book but every tweet, are we losing track of what really matters? Science writer James Gleick has written The Information : A History, a Theory, a Flood, a new book about the challenges of the Information Age.
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When Did 'Information' Become Just a Bunch of 1's and 0's? With the Library of Congress now collecting not just every book but every tweet, are we losing track of what really matters? Science writer James Gleick has written The Information : A History, a Theory, a Flood, a new book about the challenges of the Information Age.
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To the Point
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To the Point
Who's to blame for the opioid crisis? Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.
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Janesville and the American Dream Janesville, Wisconsin is the hometown of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. But he couldn’t prevent the closing of the General Motors factory after 100 years. On this Memorial Day rebroadcast of To the Point, we hear what’s happened to what once was a model of American middle-class unity.