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Explorations in the world of science.
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| 0:40.0 | Hello, I'm Colin Grant, and in this edition of Discovery on BBC World Service, I'll be talking |
| 0:49.2 | to James Glick about the ideas that have been illuminated in his long-awaited |
| 0:53.6 | a much acclaimed new book, The Information. |
| 0:56.7 | Glick is a science writer who first came to prominence in the 1980s |
| 1:01.1 | with Chaos making a new science, his groundbreaking work. in the a Several heroic and pioneering figures are thrown up in Glick's account. |
| 1:25.0 | They include Ada Byron, who some regard as the first computer programmer |
| 1:30.0 | long before the birth of computers. |
| 1:32.0 | Charles Babbage, the birth of computers. |
| 1:33.0 | Charles Babbage, the 19th century inventor of an analytical machine, |
| 1:37.0 | is also a key player. |
| 1:39.0 | But at the heart of the information is an examination of information theory which is first proposed |
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