Information Culture

Elias G. Carayannis and Ali Pirzadeh

Chapter 3 in The Knowledge of Culture and the Culture of Knowledge, 2014, pp 29-77 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Ever since man engaged in recording and transmitting his thoughts and ideas in forms of cuneiform (ancient Mesopotamian script), hieroglyphs, or codex, the notion of information has been a significant factor in the development of his civilization and his cognitive faculty. Today, however, we have arrived at the point where not only the world we live in but the entire universe is seen in light of information to the extent that it’s sometimes hard to fathom, as Brown and Duguid observed: ‘it’s sometimes hard to fathom what there is beyond information to talk about’1. Physicists seem to suggest that everything we know of, from cats and dogs and trees and people, to stars, planets and galaxies are all just pieces of information, bits of code. Biologists exhibit the blueprint of life by transcribing genetic information from DNA to RNA and then interpreting (translating) information carried by RNA to synthesize the encoded protein. In fact the role of information theory in science stretches into Gödel’s Incompleteness proof, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, thermodynamic entropy, memetics, bio-informatics, and the nature of information as an ontological entity distinct from matter or energy.2

Keywords: Mass Medium; Human Mind; Catastrophe Theory; Iranian Woman; Thermodynamic Entropy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137383525_3

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