the biology of code

Posted: March 27, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: cybernetics, future, hacking, history, information, internet, language, math, metadata, science, speculation | Comments Off

Fabulous piece and video chat with George Dyson over at the always reliable Edge –

A Universe Of Self-replicating Code | Conversation | Edge.

George Dyson

Claude Shannon and the Clams

Posted: March 16, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: abstraction, communications, cybernetics, history, information, internet, language, math, people, science, video | Comments Off

I finished reading James Gleick’s The Information tonite – so good!

Really, the central character is Claude Shannon, who I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t previously know much about. Had a quick search when i finished it and found this decent little 30 min documentary which gives a good overview –

The Information

Posted: March 14, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: cybernetics, history, ideas, internet, military, networking, people, programming, science, video | Comments Off

I started reading James Gleick’s “The Information” last week and haven’t been able to put it down yet – so good!
I just found this video of a talk he presented at Google last year on the book, looks ace, i’ll save it for watching this evening.