I have just finished David W's new book Small Pieces Loosely Joined. Even though I have flu, it was a good read - That's a test! There was one point where I disagreed with him though, when he stated that Shannon's Information Theory did not apply to human communication.
Claude Shannon, the founder of the Theorey, identifies the critical relationships of a communication system as follows:
· The power at the source of a signal
· The bandwidth of the channel through which the signal travels
· The noise on the channel such as static which can obscure the signal
· The receiver who must be in a position and state to decode the signal
Can we use these ideas in our day to day communications? I think so.
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