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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.
Order and Disorder. Information
Order and Disorder. 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.
Communication Primer
Communication Primer
Film produced by Ray and Charles Eames in 1963, i.e. 5 years after the first appearance of the Mathematical Theory of Communication (MTC, also considered as "Information theory"). As shown at the end of the film, the script was advised by Shannon, Weaver, Wiener, von Neuman, Kaufmann, Campbell and other authors of the first scientific theories of information. The fundamental ideas of the MTC are presented. In any case, though the meaning of the MTC in the field of telecommunications is clearly represented, it is also highlighted the application of this understanding to the every day use as well as to the territory of economics and others.
What is reality? (Matrix)
What is reality? (Matrix)
Physicists show us that if we consider it carefully: a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. And the understanding of information is indeed entangled with this unraveling of this strange world.
The quest to explain the true nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories. Clues have been pieced together from deep within the atom, from the event horizon of black holes, and from the far reaches of the cosmos.
It may be that that we are part of a cosmic hologram containing all the existing information, projected from the edge of the universe. Or that we exist in an infinity of parallel worlds. Your reality may never look quite the same again.
The Information Machine (1958)
The Information Machine (1958)
Cartoon tracing the history of storing and analyzing information from the days of the cavemen to today's age of electronic brains.
In this interesting series of recorded conversation with well known philosophers, you can learn about why philosophy is particularly relevant in historical situations (as ours) in which new orientations are needed, the big questions of well-doing and acting, the quest of how can we manage the decision-making as societies, who we really are (as you may remember this is the duty given to Socrates by the pythonesse of Delos)... All there are short (15-20 min) and really worth listening. Enjoy them!
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.
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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