Prologue 3(10)
1 Drums That Talk
13(15)
2 The Persistence of the Word
28(23)
3 Two Wordbooks
51(27)
4 To Throw the Powers of Thought into Wheel-Work
78(47)
5 A Nervous System for the Earth
125(43)
6 New Wires, New Logic
168(36)
7 Information Theory
204(29)
8 The Informational Turn
233(36)
9 Entropy and Its Demons
269(18)
10 Life's Own Code
287(23)
11 Into the Meme Pool
310(14)
12 The Sense of Randomness
324(31)
13 Information Is Physical
355(18)
14 After the Flood
373(25)
15 New News Every Day
398(15)
Epilogue 413(14)
Acknowledgments 427(2)
Notes 429(48)
Bibliography 477(28)
Index 505