A couple years ago I got it into my head that Information Theory held all the answers to the world’s computing problems. So, I got this book called The Mathematical Theory of Communication written by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver. I was and still am too lazy to go through the math inside and really didn’t and don’t care much about it, but it’s old books like these (Shannon’s original article was published in 1948) that I think should have more impact on new “technological developments” or whatever you want to call them.
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