*The Information: James Gleick talks about his new book* http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/05/jgleick Today, 6.30 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live James Gleick, author of /The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood <http://www.amazon.com/The-Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/0375423729>/, will discuss his new book. *About James* James Gleick is a native New Yorker and a graduate of Harvard and the author of a half-dozen books on science, technology, and culture. His latest bestseller, translated into 20 languages, is /The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood/, which the NY Times called "ambitious, illuminating, and sexily theoretical." Whatever they meant by that. They also said "Don't make the mistake of reading it quickly."