Portrait of Claude Shannon
Computation

Claude Shannon

The Information Age

Reduce information to ones and zeros—open the digital age.

“I am rooting for the machines!... I am not depressed by machines getting better. Within a century, machines will be doing almost everything better than we can.”

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