Claude Shannon: The Man Who Turned Paper Into Pixels

The digital world is fast moving and complex...or is it?

It turns out that everything in our information age - from email, to facebook, skype and YouTube, is all based on the most simple of ideas.

Watch our latest video essay to find out what that is.

// DELVE DEEPER:

Curious? Read Andrew Lih's quick explanation of Information Theory
http://edge.org/response-detail/11486

Even more interested? Spend an hour learning Information Theory with this Cambridge Professor http://videolectures.net/mackay_cours...

Super interested? Read "Information: a history, a theory, a flood" by James Glieck
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0...

A maths person? Read Shannon's original 1948 paper which changed the world: http://www.magmamater.cl/MatheComm.pdf


Spanish translation by Ana Ribera Molinos
Indonesian translation by Farras Octara http://www.farrasoctara.com/
Portuguese translation by João Brito


// CREDITS

STOCK VIDEO: Beachfront B-roll / Dissolve.com / Mitch Martinez
ARCHIVE: Prelinger Archives, San Francisco / Charles and Ray Eames
IMAGES OF CLAUDE SHANNON: MIT Museum Boston / Nixdorf MuseumsForums, Paderborn
CROUPIER: John Ngo
PIANIST: Steph O'Dea
ANIMATION: Adam Westbrook
MUSIC: James Brett, Min-Y-LLan, Hugo 'Droopy' Contini
STORY DESIGN + DIRECTION: Adam Westbrook