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Wiener had proposed that researchers study the
all so much informational entropy that cannot be conserved.
Wiener has been proved right. His vision of
this was the proper measure of “information”: body
they would be willing to pay to get the chance to do it.” L’art pour l’art
is made rather for its keeping and selling properties than for its
an informational reversion to the mean. “More and more
but they had nonetheless become all too familiar to the
” he concluded: The Bard’s couplets may depart
must say something substantially different
was to distinguish a colloquial sense of “information
“the fate of information in the typically American
“questions of information will be evaluated
and then put into our libraries with labels of secrecy
after which no further change could occur.
” some far-off time when the total stock of energy had uniformly dispersed
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an imperative that came to be known as the second