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The COVID-19 pandemic has seen some Asian countries employ sophisticated mass-surveillance technologies normally employed to gather intelligence for domestic security purposes to contain the spread of infection in their populations. There has also been an intrusion of military and allied national security actors into the traditionally civilian domain of public health, in the ....
Jane Austen s concept of information (Not Claude Shannon s) 12 Jul 2017; 1 Jun 2018; 7 Aug 2018; 29 Aug 2018; 4 Sep 2018 10 Mar 2015; 29 May 2015 (Added introduction);4 Jun 2015; 30 Apr 2013; 16 Dec 2013; 27 Dec 2013; 6 Aug 2014; This file is available in two forms CONTENTS Introduction: Shannon vs Austen Many scientists and engineers, including, surprisingly, some psychologists and neuroscientists, seem to think that what the word information and its equivalents in other languages refer to is what Claude Shannon s ground-breaking 1948 paper referred to as information : a measurable property of signals that can be stored, transmitted, compared, compressed, decompressed, corrupted, repaired, encrypted, decrypted, etc. (Shannon, 1948). Many of Shannon s admirers seem to have forgotten that there is a much older, ....