How Much Textual Information Do We Consume Daily?

At a high level, information is a fascinating concept. Each year we learn more and more profound facts about the seemingly simple patterns of zeros and ones that make up our daily lives. Indeed according to recent discoveries in Physics, we are made of information. Seth Lloyd, professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, popularized and explained this notion in his bestseller Programming the Universe. His theory revolves around information as a physical entity and the universe itself as a quantum computer. More ...