We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning
amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future,
collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors,
in which we may recognize creatures of the information.
James GleickThe Information (pg. 426)
...a great effulgence of words (pg. 101)
Three books:
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood James Gleick (2011) [Kindle, Audible]Information: A Historical Companion Ann Blair et al. (2021)
Information: Keywords Michele Kennerly et al. (2021)
I can see it in the Mind's Eye: a sort of lemonade stand set up on Cambridge Street, but with a sign offering Information, from which I distributed maps of the Harvard-centered part of Cambridge. I was probably 9 years old, and it was my first enterprise aimed at Informing Others.
It wasn't until I began to become a Librarian (at Simmons in 1991) that Information became an explicit center of my attention and study, and the odyssey of the last almost-35 years has seen an extraordinary breadth of development...