<story><title>Claude Shannon’s research laid foundations for modern communications (2020)</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bee_rider</author><text>Shannon’s work has already produced a whole lot of course, but I don’t think we’re anywhere near seeing the full outcome of his contributions yet.&lt;p&gt;Currently our computers operate by filling the transistors with charge and&amp;#x2F;or dumping it to ground. Who even cares about in information-theoretic efficiency in that case? The cost of the actual work done is dwarfed by the ancillary cost of running the machine.&lt;p&gt;If we ever move on to something less brute-force, like reversible quantum cellular automata, I think we’ll see him as an invaluable part in the chain of formalizing what information and computation mean physically.&lt;p&gt;Kelvin&amp;#x2F;Maxwell -&amp;gt; Shannon -&amp;gt; Landauer -&amp;gt; maybe Bennett</text></comment>
<story><title>Claude Shannon’s research laid foundations for modern communications (2020)</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rogerkirkness</author><text>Certainly it seems like Shannon is turning out to be the lindy Nicola Tesla equivalently impactful person but in the realm of bits.</text></comment>