Ornamental

Abstract

In 1948, Claude Shannon's A Mathematical Theory of Information laid the groundwork for the digital age. It defined the term information, introduced the unit bit and revolutionized how we communicate. Shannon's work gives us physical parameters to define an often perceivably abstract entity: information. It's a seemingly strange and wonderful truth in the digital age that information is physical---where one is often led to believe that information lives in the ether of clouds.