Sublime

“Information can be considered as order wrenched from disorder.”

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Ultimately, fast long-distance messaging was what made synchronization possible—not the reverse.

First law: The energy of the universe is constant. Second law: The entropy of the universe always increases.

“Shannon develops a concept of information which, surprisingly enough, turns out to be an extension of the thermodynamic concept of entropy.”

Shannon liked games and puzzles. Secret codes entranced him, beginning when he was a boy reading Edgar Allan Poe. He gathered threads like a magpie.