James Gleick, the author of the bestseller CHAOS, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality-the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The information age is upon us, and citizens of this world have become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And they sometimes feel they are drowning, swept by a deluge of news and images, blogs and tweets. THE INFORMATION is the story of how we got here and where we are heading. It will transform readers' views on the subject.