Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

by Cesar A. Hidalgo

So what makes our planet special is not that it is a singularity of matter or energy, but that it is a singularity of physical order, or information. Our planet is to information what a black hole is to matter and what a star is to energy. Our planet is where information lives, grows, and hides in an otherwise mostly barren universe.