- Genes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Type 'What is th' and faster than you can find the 'e' Google is sending choices back at you: 'What is the cloud?' 'What is the mean?' 'What is the American dream?' 'What is the illuminati?' Google is trying to read your mind. Only it's not your mind. It's the World Brain.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look at why they're going faster and what effect they have on us. We all know about FedEx and instant pudding, but it doesn't mean we've looked at all the consequences of our desire for speed.
- Embody
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off. It's a choice that you can embody in electrical circuits, and it is thanks to that that we have all this ubiquitous computing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one example. We talk now about coders, coding. Computer guys are coders. The stuff they write is code.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memes can be visual. Our image of George Washington is a meme. We don't actually have any idea what George Washington looked like. There are so many different portraits of him, and they're all different. But we have an image in our head, and that image is propagated from one place to another, from one person to another.
- Advent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020