Our Library of Babble

In 2024, Oxford’s Word of the Year was “brain-rot." Has our brain's capacity to process information met its match in the age of AI-generated mishmash? A book review of The Information.

James Gleick’s The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is an ambitious project, 526 pages tracing the prehistory and history of how humans have created, understood, analyzed, defined, distilled, accelerated, and even embodied information. Nearly 100 of those pages comprise Gleick’s notes, bibliography, and index—a thick testament to the immense am…