Claude Shannon fan club with Jimmy Soni and David Senra 📖
Liberty's Highlights
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
00:00
Transcript
Play full episode
Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts
Save insights instantly, chat with episodes, and build lasting knowledge - all powered by AI.
