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Computers and Health Care
“The development of our information processing industry is basically governed by longer term super-cycles… Analyses of what computational environments will facilitate can be mind-boggling. To offer just one example, health care delivery will be revolutionized by 1990, with most large … Continue reading
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Arithmetic, Then and Now
“Our youth, proficients in a noble art Divide a farthing to the hundredth part. Well done, my boy, the joyful father cries, Addition and Subtraction make us wise.”–Oliver Oldschool, 1801* “The different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and … Continue reading
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We Are What We Remember
“Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight”–John Locke “Memory is a process by which what is learned persists across time”–Larry Squire and … Continue reading
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Education Spoiled, Purpose Lost
“Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”–Sydney J. Harris, journalist … Continue reading
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Watching the Mail, the New Reality
“When you control the mail, you control information.”–Mail carrier Newman, Seinfeld Today in 1972, George Washington signed the Post Office Act, creating the United States Postal Service. In 2011, the USPS delivered 168 billion pieces of mail, … Continue reading
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Be Careful What You Ask For
“It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.”—Oscar Wilde “There is no way I’m going to let these simian creatures defeat me. While they’re sleeping, I’m processing countless terabytes of useless information.”—IBM’s Watson (Jeopardy … Continue reading
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Too Much Information
Too much information running through my brain Too much information driving me insane –The Police
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Information, Matter, and Energy
“A basic idea in communication theory is that information can be treated very much like a physical quantity such as mass or energy” – Claude Shannon “Information is information, not matter or energy” – Norbert Wiener “Without matter, there … Continue reading
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Binary World
“If the base 2 is used [for measuring information] the resulting units may be called binary digits, or more briefly bits, a word suggested by J. W. Tukey. A device with two stable positions, such as a relay or a … Continue reading
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The Ultimate Question
“[In Douglas Adams’ A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,] a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings built a computer named Deep Thought to calculate the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. When the answer was revealed … Continue reading
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The Story of Information 