Did Shannon Alone Invent Our Future?

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There’s an important bit of knowledge buried in an interesting new article about the history of modern communication: A portmanteau of “binary digit,” a bit could be either a 1 or a 0, and Shannon’s paper is the first to use the word (though he said the mathematician John Tukey used it in a memo … Continue reading Did Shannon Alone Invent Our Future?

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