THE ASCENT OF INFORMATION

Your information has a life of its own, and its using you to get what it wants.One of the most peculiar and possibly unique feature s of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure fo r the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, weve failed to ask exactly why were expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, re sources, and human effort to maintain all this data.Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer sc ience, info...[Read more]