"I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines."
-Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon was one smart dude. Much of our digital and cellular world has Shannon's work at its foundation. This Michigan native gets some serious respect from the folks at Wikipedia, who state he: "is also credited with founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he wrote his thesis demonstrating that electrical applications of boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical, numerical relationship. It has been claimed that this was the most important master's thesis of all time." Wow. Hope that makes thing clear.
Shannon is also quoted as saying, "Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability" and "Information is the resolution of uncertainty." If I am doing my calculations correctly that means that the negative reciprocal value of probability equals the resolution of uncertainty. What?
I'm rooting for the humans.
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