Dr. Melvin Vopson 'The environmental weight of data'
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern
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The Difference Between Information and Data
Data and information are the same thing, they converge to the same thing when you get down to this probabilistic approach within the Shannon information theory framework. In other words, any data that is digitized qualifies for this Shannon information theory definition of information in terms of probabilistic nature. So it kind of everything converges to, which is maybe why John Wheeler suggested that the whole universe emerges from information within the universe - including matter in space time. It's a very powerful idea.
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