Information : a very short introduction /
Luciano Floridi unpacks this fundamental concept - what information is, how it is measured, its value and meaning - cutting across the sciences and humanities, from DNA to the Internet, and the ethical issues related to privacy, copyright and accessibility.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2010.
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Colección: | Very short introductions.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Introduction
- The Information revolution
- The Language of information
- Mathematical information
- Semantic information
- Physical information
- Biological information
- Economic information
- The Ethics of information
- Epilogue: The Marriage of physis and techne
- References
- Index.