Dec
28
Two bits from Lev Grossman’s list of “Top 10 Moments in Reading in 2011” for Time, the first from James Gleick’s The Information and the second from Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs, unfairly ripped out of context and set next to each other:
1. “In 1948 [Claude] Shannon, an engineer at Bell Labs, published a paper called ‘A Mathematical Theory of Communication,’ thereby inventing the entire field of information science. To do this, Gleick writes, ‘first Shannon had to eradicate “meaning.”’”
2. “What an incredible image: Jobs and Wozniak, the architects of our bizarre digital landscape, dressed up as the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit.”
