I thought the interview was ineresting
On Sep 3, 2011, at 2:59 PM, 118 wrote: > 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
