What Gleick fails to recognize is that all sq is information, every last bit of it. Always has been, always will be. When he recognizes that, I will take him seriously. I do find his books entertaining, however, just sometimes misleading if one knows something of the subject.
Thanks for the post. Mark On Sep 2, 2011, at 5:46 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's an interesting radio interview with James Gleick concerning his new > book 'The Information' > > > "We can see now that information is what our world runs on: the blood and the > fuel, the vital principle. It pervades the sciences from top to bottom, > transforming every branch of knowledge. Information theory began as a bridge > from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing. What > English speakers call “computer science” Europeans have long since known as > informatique, informatica, and Informatik. Now even biology has become an > information science, a subject of messages, instructions, and code. Genes > encapsulate information and enable procedures for reading it in and writing > it out. Life spreads by networking. The body itself is an information > processor. Memory is stored not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder > genetics bloomed along with information theory. DNA is the quintessential > information molecule, the most advanced message processor at the cellular > level—an alphabet and a code, 6 billion bits to form a human being. “What > lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a > ‘spark of life,’” declares the evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins. “It is > information, words, instructions. . . . If you want to understand life, don’t > think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information > technology.” The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven > communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. > Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism > and environment." > > > > http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/03/18/james-gleick > > ___ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
