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Why Information Grows — Remains of the Day
Humans are special animals when it comes to information, because unlike other species, we have developed an enormous ability to encode large volumes of information outside our bodies. Naively, we can think of this information as the information we encode in books, sheet music, audio recordings, and video. Yet for longer than we have been able to wr
... See morefrom Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies by César A. Hidalgo