While perhaps not directly relevant to you questions, your comment made me think of a book I read a while ago called The Information (https://en.wikipedia.org/w

While perhaps not directly relevant to you questions, your comment made me think of a book I read a while ago called The Information (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_Theory,_a_Flood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_...). It's well worth reading and made me appreciate the importance of Information Theory (and computers)!