Without information theory, the Internet would not have existed.
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From the mid-20sNumber In the 21st century, the digital revolution ushered in the information age, fundamentally changing the way information is processed and transmitted. Traditionally analog audio and video became digital. Telephones gained more computing power than machines filling a room…
