Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Cybernetics, Memetics

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G
• Professor: Kane Faucher

Document Summary

Noise (cid:224) requires reduction, achieved through redundancy (cid:224) information is copy and repeated in the event that it is intercepted by noise (cid:224) noise is the enemy of information (cid:224) noise is coming from us, inside our head (cid:224) we don"t hear 50% off the noise coming from our environment because we"re always thinking (cid:224) noise may equal freedom, but not fidelity (cid:224) the universe wants entropy (cid:224) 1000 megabytes of information sent every year (cid:224) the current amount of information we have worldwide would take 60,000 years of high quality dvd to watch (cid:224) 90% of all that information was produced in the last 30 years. Norbert wiener (cid:224) founder of cybernetics (cid:224) information wants to be free! (cid:224) negative feedback stalls entropy (cid:224) bodies and machines operate similarly (cid:224) weiner defined information as something that restricts choice, reduces uncertainty and controls something else (cid:224) we are constantly in feedback with our environment.