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The concept of "crystallized information" is very lovely, and I see it being quite useful. Interestingly it's also a self-referential word, because it is itself. I recall economics texts focusing on land, labor, and capital and completely missing out on information. This book suggest an interesting means of mathematically institutionalizing the latter - something I've always wanted a simple way to do.

I love that his definitions of information, knowledge, and knowhow are more concrete than most(all?) authors. He gives W. Weaver a bit too much priority in Shannon's work; also doesn't mention the original title of Shannon's Bell Labs paper or its significance. I love his concrete examples of the Bugati, Rubic's cube, and DNA. His philosophy seems to fit in with my own so far; can't wait to get to the economics.

Easily one of the most interesting books I've read all year!