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The Promethean, Volume 02, Number 03, Spring 1994, English Department, Concordia University-Portland
The Promethean, Volume 02, Number 03, Spring 1994, English Department, Concordia University-Portland
The Promethean
How does information affect noise? Information, we must steadily remember, is a measure of one's freedom of choice in selecting a message. The greater this freedom of choice, the greater is the uncertainty that the message actually selected is some particular one. Thus greater freedom of choice, greater uncertainty and greater information all go hand in hand.
From The Mathematics of Communication, by Warren Weaver.
I have been asked by several people, "What is The Promethean?" It dawned on me that in none of the previous issues has the origin of The Promethean's name been addressed. Prometheus was a …