{"product_id":"9781324020783","title":"How We Disappear : A Personal History of Information","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur lives are collections of information-from mundane official documents, poignant family photos, and random artifacts to the cues embodied in our genes. Never is this more evident than in the wake of a parent's death. Yet from all these elusive, even evanescent, data points, history is written and a future is made. This information is stored on clay tablets and wood pulp; in vinyl grooves, compact discs and magnetic patterns; and relayed over undersea cables and satellite cell networks. But all information decays. Everything that we put \"in formation\" eventually collapses into randomness.   In this wide-ranging examination of the micro and macro, world-renowned scholar Thomas S. Mullaney reflects on the deaths of his parents, and on how human lives \"disappear\". Lyrical and poignant, his erudite, inspiring meditation offers eye-opening insight on the miracle of existence, and on what it means to forge meaning from a chaotic universe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55732168753528,"sku":"9781324020783","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781324020783.jpg?v=1794271771","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781324020783","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}