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Coincidence from 2001
Sort of a strange coincidence.
Since I've been writing about bit literacy a lot lately I've been meaning to link to my speech from February 2001 when I announced the concept at the TED conference. Here's the speech (mp3).
I was looking around online for the exact date of the talk and happened upon a news story published the very day I gave my talk - Saturday, February 24, 2001:
Mathematician Claude Shannon dies | CNET News.com
MEDFORD, Mass.-Claude Shannon, a mathematician and computer scientist whose theories became the basis for modern mass communications networks, died Saturday after battling Alzheimer's disease. He was 84.
Shannon invented the bit. Everything in my TED speech - and much of what I (and you, probably, if you're reading this blog) - write and think about and work on derives from his important work. In the hurry of events that February, I missed the story that day.
Thank you, Dr. Shannon.
