Dr. Melvin Vopson 'The environmental weight of data'
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern
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The Problem With Shannon Theory
Information theory does not distinguish between random bits, bit states or random information. In other words, if you have 500 megabytes of data, which results into no message whatsoever in nothing, when you read out is completely gibberish random characters that are being generated,. That amount of information will wait or will have an identical energy content to 500 megabyte of information. And I do have a problem with this. I wish I would know how to maybe improve the theory a bit, or maybe add something to it to maybe solve this.
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