One of my former Berkeley professors reviews the new book by one of my favorite science historians, James Gleick. I’m planning to read this soon, though Nunberg has some problems with it:

… His focus on information as a prime mover and universal substance leads him to depict its realm as a distinct place at a remove from the larger social world, rather than as an extension of it.

I’ve read Gleick’s biographies of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton and recommend them both.