The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes Season 1 Episode 24 The Meaning of Information
- TV-PG
- December 11, 2015
- 32 min
Survey the phenomenon of information from pre-history to the projected far future, focusing on the special problem of anti-cryptography-designing an understandable message for future humans or alien civilizations. Close by revisiting Shannon's original definition of information and ask, "What does the theory of information leave out?"