{"id":14184,"date":"2015-02-25T17:26:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T17:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/notes-from-the-information-by-james-gleick-2\/"},"modified":"2015-02-25T17:26:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T17:26:47","slug":"notes-from-the-information-by-james-gleick-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/notes-from-the-information-by-james-gleick-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from \u201cThe Information\u201d by James Gleick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 25, 2015<br \/>\nChapter 4. To Throw the Powers of Thought into Wheel-Work<\/p>\n<p>Her exposition took the form of notes lettered A through G, extending to nearly three times the length of Menabrea\u2019s essay. They offered a vision of the future more general and more prescient than any expressed by Babbage himself. How general? The engine did not just calculate; it performed operations, she said, defining an operation as \u201cany process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things,\u201d and declaring: \u201cThis is the most general definition, and would include all subjects in the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All Excerpts From<\/p>\n<p>Gleick, James. \u201cThe Information.\u201d Pantheon, 2011-02-28T15:00:00+00:00. iBooks.<br \/>\nThis material may be protected by copyright.<\/p>\n<p>ludo ergo sum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 25, 2015 Chapter 4. To Throw the Powers of Thought into Wheel-Work Her exposition took the form of notes lettered A through G, extending to nearly three times the length of Menabrea\u2019s essay. They offered a vision of the future more general and more prescient than any expressed by Babbage himself. How general? The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3GM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}