Stop Complaining, There Was Always TMI
The word “bit” was used as a term of measuring information in 1948, coined by 32-year-old mathematician and engineer Claude Shannon in The Bell System Technical Journal. “The bit now joined the inch, the pound, the quart and the minute as a determinate quantity…as though there were such a thing, measurable and quantifiable as information,” James Gleick read from the prologue of his book The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood.
Facing a crowd at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, Gleick examined the conceptualization of information from alphabets …
