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PEOPLE & CULTURE
bit player, the

In a blockbuster paper in 1948, Claude Shannon introduced the notion of a “bit”
and laid the foundation for the information age. His ideas ripple through nearly
every aspect of modern life, influencing such diverse fields as communication,
linguistics, genetics, computing, cryptography, neuroscience, artificial intelligence
and cosmology. But when interviewed in the 1980s, Shannon was more interested
in showing off the gadgets he’d constructed - juggling robots, a Rubik’s Cube
solving machine, a wearable computer to win at roulette, a unicycle without

pedals, a flame-throwing trumpet - than rehashing the past. Mixing
contemporary interviews, archival film, animation and dialogue drawn from Definition Episodes
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interviews conducted with Shannon himself, The Bit Player tells the story of an Producer YOP
overlooked genius who revolutionized the world, but never lost his childlike An IEEE Information Theory 2019
curiosity. Society Production