Entropy, Information & Technology

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This may come as a surprise to a lot of people, but while many in the information technology industry have ‘IT’ in their title, few of them can actually give you a scientific definition of what ‘Information’ or ‘Technology’ stands for. Of course, they can point to a MacBook Pro or an iPhone and identify them as an example of information technology, but they cannot tell you the common denominator which they both must share in order to be classifiable as information technology nor can they tell you why a book qualifies as such. This isn’t a slight on these people though and ignorance of such things does not preclude anyone from doing great things, but it does make things more difficult and more subjective; which I hear can be counter-productive and failure to fully understand these terms may explain why a lot of concepts and technology concepts as a whole fall flat on their face.