Embryo (Introduction) | The Alan Moore Podcast #1
The Alan Moore Podcast
The Invisible Substance of Information and Its Cultural Impact
The control over information in our lives and culture is illusionary, as the underlying substance of our reality—information—remains largely invisible yet profoundly influential. Historically, the divorce between science and information reflects a complex cultural evolution, but recent advancements in fields like quantum physics suggest a remerging of these concepts. Information is posited as a fundamental component that precedes physical laws, indicating that the universe itself may stem from primal informational constructs. The concept of period information doubling illustrates a rapid acceleration in human innovation: initially spanning 50,000 years for the first double, shrinking to 1,500 years by the Renaissance, and collapsing to just a few decades in modern times, with recent measures suggesting information doubles approximately every 18 months. This implies a transformative cultural shift where the pace of knowledge and invention is increasing exponentially.
