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Why Information Grows — Remains of the Day
Because Information Theory is central to how everything works, it actually has implications far beyond bits, which we are starting to see right now. In particular, powered by information technology, we've seen a radical breakthrough in vaccine development, we're close to autonomous automobiles, we're building better supersonic jets, and even flying... See more
Ben Horowitz • The Architecture of Tomorrow: An Interview With Ben Horowitz
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
James Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Once those explanations are recorded somewhere they become Knowledge. For billions of years Knowledge Creation was limited to our biological Evolution, slow and random changes over time inscribed in our DNA. Then 7,000 years ago we invented language, 5,000 years ago writing, 582 years ago printing-presses, and very recently computers and hard-drive... See more
Alex MacCaw • The Beginning of Infinity
For most of history, humanity’s challenge was how to acquire scarce information. There was hardly any good information to be found anywhere. It was locked up in difficult-to-reproduce manuscripts or stuck in the heads of scholars. Access to information was limited, but that wasn’t a problem for most people. Their lives and livelihoods didn’t requir
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