Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (2016)
From what I understand, before Shannon showed up no one knew how to calculate the Channel Capacity of a medium and how to deal with noise in the medium.<p>So people just yelled louder or yelled repeatedly to get things across with better reliability. And when channel capacity was exceeded with everyone yelling too much, no one knew it had exceeded and lot of energy and time was wasted with increasing errors in the system.<p>Doesn't that feel like a repeat with whats happening in social media and news media these days? Or is it just different things.