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James Gleick

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2026 1

  1. The Telephone: A New History

2025 3

  1. How the Web Was Lost
  2. The Parrot in the Machine
  3. The Case for Free Will

2024 2

  1. Too Good to Be True
  2. Remembering the Future

2023 2

  1. Twitter, We Hardly Knew Ye
  2. Now You See Me, Now You Don’t

2022 1

  1. Space Age Magus

2020 1

  1. Hawking Stephen Hawking

2019 1

  1. Moon Fever

2016 11

  1. Oop: Time Travelers Missing from My Book Time Travel
  2. Time for Earth Time
  3. The Discovery of Time
  4. Remembering “Chris Marker”
  5. Annals of Internet Porn: 1995
  6. Her Majesty Defines Time
  7. Let Twitter Be Twitter
  8. New Book
  9. Not Negligible After All
  10. Time Travel
  11. We See Ghosts

2015 6

  1. Can Libraries Make the Leap?
  2. Time Travel
  3. Bot or Not?
  4. What’s This?
  5. For Sale: Magna Carta. Slightly Used.
  6. The Ghosts Won’t Starve

2014 6

  1. Leaderless Internet Hive Brain?
  2. A Vast Confusion
  3. Why Must an Author Twit?
  4. “The Telephone Transformed—Into Practically Everything”
  5. “You Are Old, Father Feynman”
  6. “She Was a Courier in the City”

2013 11

  1. March of time, arrow of time, time warp
  2. The Zone of Uncertainty (What Pope Francis Said)
  3. Metaphors of Time: 1850
  4. The OED Redefines “Information” Yet Again
  5. Wikipedia’s Women Problem (2013)
  6. Total Noise Gets Louder
  7. Total Noise, Only Louder
  8. Addendum: Libraries, Scholars, Words
  9. Taking Daylight Saving Time to Extremes
  10. P.S. re preserving our species memory
  11. The Twitterverse Goes to the Library

2012 5

  1. Ada’s Birthday
  2. Autocorrect, Unexpurgated
  3. Harald Bluetooth? Really?
  4. Meta Enough for You?
  5. A Paradox? A Paradox!

2011 42

  1. Babbage: a Birthday Postscript
  2. The Flinging of Notes
  3. Una Macchina Automatica
  4. Defining Information, Even More
  5. Secret No More: Google and Power
  6. Twitter Postscript: Earthquake!
  7. How Google Dominates Us
  8. Touching History
  9. Touching History: Addendum
  10. And then there were eight
  11. Staying in Sync with the Cosmos
  12. When You Can’t Find the Perfect Quotation
  13. Message in an Interstellar Bottle
  14. Gone Obsolete: Your Mother’s Maiden Name
  15. In an Appliance Store, 1960
  16. This Is Predation
  17. Remind me: how dead is the Book again?
  18. Glimpse of the Past
  19. Your Whereabouts, Revealed
  20. Where Are They Now: Bell Labs
  21. Face Direction of Travel
  22. Information is How We Know
  23. Autocorrect, Unexpurgated
  24. The Google Books Settlement, R.I.P.
  25. Ta! Ra! Ra! Boom De Yay!
  26. Now Chaos Is “Enhanced”
  27. We shed as we pick up …
  28. The Information Age Is Older Than You Think
  29. Does Technology Ever Die?
  30. “Don’t tell me about microfilm!”
  31. Got Numbers?
  32. You Flatter Me! But You Are a Spambot
  33. The Cover
  34. Google v Bing: The Hiybbprqag Affair
  35. Just a little weather
  36. A Map of Science
  37. Chaos: The Software keeps on ticking
  38. The Information
  39. Art for the Mind’s Eye
  40. A meme joke from Steve Martin
  41. Annals of Food Writing
  42. Trademark Madness

2010 15

  1. Clarissa
  2. That Rogue Accent
  3. Mandelbrot Farewell
  4. All the Words in All the Books
  5. Chaos: the e-book (finally)
  6. What makes what? Help, please.
  7. The very word
  8. The Humiliation of Mr. Martin
  9. What Wikileaks Tells Us
  10. An inscription by Benoit Mandelbrot
  11. What am I doing?
  12. The birth of mathematics, rediscovered
  13. Faster (the movie)
  14. My lucky day
  15. About James Gleick

2003 1

  1. Isaac Newton

2002 1

  1. What Just Happened

2001 5

  1. Chaos 2
  2. Genius 2
  3. Faster
  4. Isaac Newton
  5. The Information

2000 1

  1. Patently Absurd (2000)

1999 1

  1. Faster 2

1995 1

  1. Watch This Space (1995)

1994 2

  1. The Doctor’s Plot
  2. The Information Future — Out of Control

1992 2

  1. Chasing Bugs in the Electronic Village (1992)
  2. Genius

Undated 2

  1. What Just Happened
  2. Chaos