While reading a biography of Claude Shannon, I try to get a picture how
computers were seen and used before Information Theory emerged. It might
be something like this:
Before Information Theory, computers were mainly calculators; processing
programs from numbers put into the machine, much like programmable, but
non-graphic calculators. Information Theory states that almost any
digital encoded data can be processed, as long as you can teach the
computer how to interpret the data.
Any more insights on this?
Greetings,
Fred Jan
