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Order and Disorder
Order and Disorder
Jim Al-Kahlili delves in the the foundations of order and disorder from the perspective of what energy and information ultimately is. Jim Al-Khalili reveals how humanity discovered the rules that drive the universe and mastered the two most important concepts of the modern age – energy and information. As a follow on to the film "Everything and Nothing, the Science of Empty Space," this award-winning science show investigates the laws, from Einstein's General Relativity to quantum mechanics, that link the universe together.
PART 1: ENERGY
Energy is vital, but what is energy? Al-Kahlili investigates a strange set of laws that link everything from engines to humans to stars. Entropy is the clue to understanding the evolution of the universe, but if disorder seems to be inexorable, how does it come that we find order? Or even more, how is it possible that life happens; or that we live?
PART 2: INFORMATION
Professor Jim Al-Khalili explains the relation between information, order and disorder in the real and in relation to knowledge, through the discussion of the fundamental ideas of computation, developed by Turing, the Mathematical Theory of Communication, developed by Shannon, but also including the foundations of symbolic writing, Jacquard's Loom and Maxwell demon.
The Information. A history, a Theory, a Flood (2013)
The Information. A history, a Theory, a Flood (2013)
In this presentation filmed in the Royal Society, London, the author of the homonimous book, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that, he claims, changed the very nature of human consciousness. He explores where the age of information is taking us, swept along by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets.
What is Information?
What is Information?
Film made by Maya Productions about the every day understanding of information.
The necessity to distinguish between form and information is highlighted, as well as between actual and potential Information. The viewpoint of information regarding the alternatives given the ignorance of the recipient is clearly established upon Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication.
The Power of Networks
The Power of Networks
Manuel Lima and Abi Stephenson, explores the power of network visualisation to help navigate our complex modern world. Taken from a lecture given by Manuel Lima as part of the RSA's free public events programme.
The Social Dilemma
The Social Dilemma
This 2020 American docudrama film was directed by Jeff Orlowski and written by Orlowski, Davis Coombe, and Vickie Curtis. It examines -using the voices of protagonist in the development of social media technology- how the very design of these technologies nurtures an addiction, manipulates people's views, emotions, and behavior, and spreads conspiracy theories and disinformation, to maximize profit. The film also examines the issue of social media's effect on mental health (including the mental health of adolescents and rising teen suicide rates), as well as the risk for social confrontation through the creation of "filter bubbles". All in all, nothing like a good means for properly addressing the big questions of philosophy "what should I do?", "what there is?", "how do I know".
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