{"id":14373,"date":"2016-05-05T11:52:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T15:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14373"},"modified":"2016-05-05T11:52:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T15:52:50","slug":"claude-shannon-turns-1100100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/05\/claude-shannon-turns-1100100\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude Shannon Turns 1100100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/elements\/claude-shannon-the-father-of-the-information-age-turns-1100100\">Siobhan Roberts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/elements\/claude-shannon-the-father-of-the-information-age-turns-1100100\">\n<p>&ldquo;It would be cheesy to compare him to Einstein,&rdquo; James Gleick, the author of &ldquo;The Information,&rdquo; told me, before submitting to temptation. &ldquo;Einstein looms large, and rightly so. But we&rsquo;re not living in the relativity age, we&rsquo;re living in the information age. It&rsquo;s Shannon whose fingerprints are on every electronic device we own, every computer screen we gaze into, every means of digital communication. He&rsquo;s one of these people who so transform the world that, after the transformation, the old world is forgotten.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siobhan Roberts: &ldquo;It would be cheesy to compare him to Einstein,&rdquo; James Gleick, the author of &ldquo;The Information,&rdquo; told me, before submitting to temptation. &ldquo;Einstein looms large, and rightly so. But we&rsquo;re not living in the relativity age, we&rsquo;re living in the information age. It&rsquo;s Shannon whose fingerprints are on every electronic device we own, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[263,295,259],"class_list":["post-14373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-theory","tag-history","tag-math"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14374,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373\/revisions\/14374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}