This essay discusses about the Age of Accelerations. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood. New York, Vintage, 2011.  Write thoroughly on the following questions. Outside sources are not required.

the Age of Accelerations

Friedman, Thomas L. Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.  Gleick, James. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood. New York, Vintage, 2011.  Write thoroughly on the following questions. Outside sources are not required. Anything quoted or paraphrase must be properly cite. 1. Discuss the differences in how we think about information before 1948, and after. What changes occur  and what shifts took place in society as a result? How does that change how we see the world today?  2. Consider the the terms meaning, knowledge, and information. Is information knowledge? What differences exist, and why does this matter? 3.

Consider Friedman’s writing about 2007,

and the resulting accelerations that have occurred. What are the implications for how people and societies understand their world and shape their activities

Information can be thought of as the resolution of uncertainty; it is that which answers the question of “What an entity is” and thus defines both its essence and the nature of its characteristics. The concept of information has different meanings in different contexts.^[1] Thus the concept becomes related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, education, knowledge, meaning, understanding, mental stimuli, pattern, perception, representation, and entropy.

Information is associated with data.

The difference is that information resolves uncertainty. Data can represent redundant symbols, but approaches information through optimal data compression.

Information can be transmit in time,

via data storage, and space, via communication and telecommunication.^[2] Information is express either as the content of a message or through direct or indirect observation. That which is perceive can be construe as a message in its own right, and in that sense, information is always convey as the content of a message.

Information can be encode into various forms for transmission and interpretation (for example, information may be encodeinto a sequence of signs, or transmitted via a signal). It can also be encrypte for safe storage and communication.

The uncertainty of an event is measure by its probability

of occurrence and is inversely proportional to that. Information theory takes advantage of this simple fact by concluding that more uncertain events, require more information to resolve uncertainty of that event. The bit is a typical unit of information. It is ‘that which reduces uncertainty by half’.^[3] Other units such as the nat may be use. For example, the information encode in one “fair” coin flip is log₂(2/1) = 1 bit, and in two fair coin flips is log₂(4/1) = 2 bits. A 2011 Science article estimate that 97% of technologically

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Firstly, be neat

Secondly, be cautious

Thirdly, integrity

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