We owe the information age to a juggler

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Craig Good

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Apr 30, 2016, 6:54:47 PM4/30/16

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I'm sure Brian knows about Claude Shannon.

Claude Shannon: Born on the planet Earth (Sol III) in the year 1916 A.D. Generally regarded as the father of the information age, he formulated the notion of channel capacity in 1948 A.D. Within several decades, mathematicians and engineers had devised practical ways to communicate reliably at data rates within one per cent of the Shannon limit.