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The Mathematical Theory of Communication, by Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver (Univ. of Illinois Press), was published in 1949, but nobody except specialists paid it much heed till the late 1950s, when, suddenly, the information experts, who were busy threatening us with an "information explosion," fastened on the word entropy, and everyone who had anything to do with information theory
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Claude E. Shannon, for one, was very cautious: “The word ˜information™ has been given different meanings by various writers in the general field of information theory.
Semantic Conceptions of Information Floridi, Luciano 2005
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