Index

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

    Acknowledgments		                   427	
    Notes		                           429	
    Bibliography		                   477	
    Index		                           505