Information

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Information / Social Relations of Technology

Erosion of personal memory

Advanced information technology appears to be contributing to the erosion of personal memory: "Digital dependence 'eroding human memory'" by Sean Coughlan. For a discussion of personal and social memory, see: Mowshowitz, A. The end of the information frontier. AI & Society, 28 (1), 2013, pp. 7-14; DOI 10.1007/s00146-012-0414-2.

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October 7, 2015
The New Energy by Identity Transduction Systems
The New Energy by Identity Transduction Systems
Economics and Finance / Information

Information and Energy: Part I

Information, like energy, is a property of a system. In some sense it comes into existence in the relationship between a "source" and a "processor". Neither energy nor information can be apprehended directly. Both are manifest in changes in the state of a system.

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March 25, 2014