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Liberty's Highlights

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Shannon Changed the World

The modern world today would not be possible without Shannon's breakthrough. He was able to realize that everything in logic all of the dibullian things could be represented by switches and basically what we have now transistors are very very simple switches but if you put enough of them in a row you can reproduce any kind of logic this kind of leap forward like they were hitting a wall with these analog computers. humanity needed to change branch and go in this digital direction because we were hitting a Wall. The medium didn't matter, the message didn't matter  the sender the receiver all these things didn't matter you could abstract it out to a series of bits as bit at the cafeteria came up

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