I too am fascinated with this (hence the focus and title of the new book I just announced ??? What We Hath Wrought .) While my book will attempt to be a narrative history of the next 30 or so years of information???s impact on our culture, Gleick???s is a history of the past 5,000 or more years ??? and it manages, for the most part, to stay focused just on the theory of information itself, rather