R1: But is the bit matter, if cannot get this information because it's not the information that's not correlating with meaning. And information theory was the theory that created the term "bit" as a fundamental unit of measure for this staff of which our world is made. But all this stuff is over species and it's measured in a unit of measure and we know what it is. The computers run solid-state disks that is processing information with very high speed. We are creating it now and sending it out over the airwaves. We know that information is practically everything in our world. And until science got to the point of being able to treat energy as something make it measure and mathematecize they couldn't build engines. Just the way energy is a specific concrete thing that the world is made of. James Gleick: Information Theory is, er, the mathematical framework that allows scientists for the first time to understand information as a thing that a scientist can deal with. And I think we are certainly all feeling the flood part when James Gleick joins us now be the author of the new book - James Gleick - has a book about information and how we got to this point. Reporter1: If you're feeling information overload.
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