Comments on: Babbage’s noise

By: 1976 swine flu.

1976 swine flu. — Sun, 03 May 2009 04:33:49 +0000

1975 swine flu vaccine and side effects….

Swine flu. 1976 swine flu. 1976 swine flu scare….

By: davidw

davidw — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:25:15 +0000

modern = present = on its way out

By: gianluca_b

gianluca_b — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:54:13 +0000

do you mean ‘present’ when you say ‘modern’ ?

or is it modern in the sense of pre post modern
or is it something else ?
or are ywe already in a miscellaneous tage
and we ll be forced to think in questions for the rest of our life ?

By: Jay Fienberg

Jay Fienberg — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:51:54 +0000

I appreciate that you’ve clarified (or, it’s just clearer to me now, than before) that you are looking at this in terms of a “modern idea” about information, rather than in terms of some ultimate idea of information. It’s definitely an interesting topic–where in history was the cross-over to this idea / was Babbage’s machine in line with this, or not?

Also, I think “the modern idea of information” isn’t “the” so much as “a modern idea.” And also, it’s more a flux of ideas of our time–even, at this point, more ideas from our recent past than solidified ideas we’ll use well into the future.

By: Emil Sotirov

Emil Sotirov — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:08:04 +0000

Someone once said to me – “…your mumbling (I was just excusing my mumbling) is more interesting than what most other people around are saying clearly…”

I’m not sure how this relates to your post…