Basically this reading talks about variety of libraries that are available in the internet. There
are several ways to access a book but not all the sources we find are actually useful.
Gleick starts to talk about wikipedia that has all kinds of information but some of these
informations aren't actually true, because they are uploaded by certain people so the text
is editable.
Gleick begins with the tale of colonial European explorers and their fascination with
Africantalking drums and their observed use to send complex and widely understood
messages back and forth between villages far apart, and over even longer distances by
relay. Gleick transitions from the information implications of such drum signaling to the
impact of the arrival of long distance telegraph and then telephone communication to the
commercial and social prospects of the industrial age west.
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