“[There has been] a widening of the field covered by the concept of “information”, both its theory and its practice. Information transfer has been put on a par with the transfer of matter and energy, as one of the primary natural processes.’”

—  Brian Campbell Vickery

Source: Fifty years of information progress (1994), p. 7: Introduction.

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