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bandwidth requirements, 6.1, 6.2
in biological evolution, 10.1, 10.2
in cuneiform, 2.1, 2.2
data compression for
disruptive effects of new technologies for, prl.1, prl.2
entanglement as
evolution of electrical technologies for, 5.1, 5.2
genetic, 10.1, 10.2
historical evolution, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
human history and, prl.1, prl.2
in telephotography, 6.1, 6.2
interconnectedness of cyberspace for, 3.1, 3.2
limits of speed and capacity, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
news reports, 5.1, 5.2
overload effects, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5
by quantum teleportation, 13.1, 13.2
for replication of culture
sensory involvement as indicator of quality of, 2.1, 2.2
source of noise in
transmission of electricity as, 5.1, 5.2
units of measurement
see also communication; meme(s); specific mode of transmission
Treatise on Electro-Magnetism (Roget)
tree rings
triangular numbers, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Trudeau, Garry
truth, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
Turing, Alan, prl.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 14.1
Turing machine(s)
capabilities
as code generator
proof of incompleteness theorem by, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 12.1
significance of, in computer science, 12.1, 12.2
states
symbols
tape, 7.1, 7.2
thermodynamics of, 13.1, 13.2
two-state model
U machine, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 12.1
Turing Test, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Twitter, 11.1, epl.1, epl.2
Uglow, Jenny
uncertainty
entropy as measure of, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2
incompleteness theorem and, 7.1, 12.1
information and
limits to science, 12.1, 12.2
in measurement of quantum properties, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
uncomputability, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5
undecidability; see decision problem
uninteresting numbers, 12.1, 12.2
University of Vienna
Updike, John
Uruk, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Vail, Alfred, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 7.1
Vail, Theodore N., 6.1, 6.2
VanArsdale, Daniel W.
van Leeuwenhoek, Antony, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
Vautroullier, Thomas
Verne, Jules
Victoria, Queen, 5.1, 6.1
Vienna Circle, 6.1, 6.2
Vigenère cipher, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2
Vincent of Beauvais
viruses, prl.1, 11.1, 11.2
vocabulary size, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9
growth of language, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Shakespeare’s
Volta, Alessandro
von Foerster, Heinz, 8.1, epl.1
von Neumann, John, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1
Voyager spacecraft
Wales, Jimmy, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5
Wallace, David Foster
Walton, Stephen, 11.1, 11.2
Washington, George
Wassall, Irma
Watson, David L.
Watson, James D., 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 13.1
Watson, John B.
Watts, Duncan, epl.1, epl.2
Weaver, Edmund
Weaver, Warren, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Weber, Wilhelm
Webster, Noah
Wells, H. G., 6.1, 9.1, 14.1, epl.1, epl.2
Well-Tempered Clavier (Bach), 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Western Union Telegraph Company
Weyl, Hermann, prl.1, 6.1
What Is Life? (Schrödinger)
Wheatstone, Charles, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Wheeler, John Archibald, prl.1, prl.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Whitehead, Alfred North, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1
Whitman, Walt, epl.1, epl.2
Whitmore, Georgiana
Wiener, Norbert, prl.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 8.14, 8.15, 8.16, 8.17, 8.18, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 12.1
Wikipedia, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8, 14.9, 14.10, 14.11, 14.12, 15.1, epl.1
Wilkes, Charles
Wilkins, John, 5.1, 5.2
Wilson, Edward O.
Wilson, Thomas
wire fences, 6.1, 6.2
Wisdom of Crowds (Surowiecki)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
World Brain (Wells)
World Congress of Universal Documentation
World War II, prl.1, prl.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Wright, Sylvia
writing
abstract thinking and
alphabet-based, 2.1, 2.2
criticism of communicative capacity of, 2.1, 2.2
cryptography and, 5.1, 5.2
cuneiform, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
in development of mathematics, 2.1, 2.2,