James Mishra

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Shannon’s lectures at MIT and his talks around the country became a survey of the world to come. At a talk at the University of Pennsylvania in 1959, for instance, he said, I think that this present century in a sense will see a great upsurge and development of this whole information business . . . the business of collecting information and the business of transmitting it from one point to another, and perhaps most important of all, the business of processing it—using it to replace man at semi-rote operations at a factory . . . even the replacement of man in the things that we almost think of ...more
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
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