Sunday, September 24, 2017

Encoded Information

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Information exists and is transmitted in many forms. Oral and written languages, developed over eons in various pockets of the world are how humanity has communicated information for a vast majority of its history. Recently, with the development of technology and the internet, a new method of communication has been developed in the form of 1's and 0's, a new language capable of being transmitted and read easily by a device that can differentiate between 2 states, but a language nonetheless easily convertible from the archaic languages.


However, over the last few years, a new treasure trove of information has been found, one that describes the functioning of all life on earth, but cannot be translated into the prior kinds of information. The discovery that DNA stores and transmits information was a revolution in our understanding of the world, not just because of all the secrets unravelled about the functioning of life, but also because it proved the existence of information encoded in the world around us.

Language and the internet

Language evolves. The pace of the evolution is dependent on the frequency of its use. For much of its history, the written word has followed...