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crystals,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1

culture

communication technology and,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3

communicative capacity of drums,
1.1
,
1.2

function of meme

perceptions changed by telegraphy,
5.1
,
5.2

replication and transmission of

thought processes biased by,
2.1
,
2.2

see also
oral culture

Cummings, E. E.,
6.1
,
8.1

cuneiform,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
2.6
,
2.7

Cunningham, Michael

cybernetics,
prl.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6
,
8.7
,
12.1
,
12.2

Cybernetics
(Wiener),
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
9.1

cyberspace,
13.1
,
epl.1

capacity for transmitting information,
3.1
,
3.2

concepts of literacy and orality in

connectivity in,
epl.1
,
epl.2

naming issues,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3

online version of
Oxford English Dictionary,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

paradox of distance in

see also
Internet

Daguerre, Louis

Dancoff, Sidney

Darwin, Charles,
4.1
,
10.1

data compression,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
prl.3
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
8.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4

Davy, Edward,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2

Dawkins, Richard,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
10.6
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
11.5
,
11.6
,
11.7

de Back, James

decision problem,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4

definitions of words

interlocking and circular nature of,
3.1
,
3.2

in perfect language

scientific progress and,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
3.1
,
3.2

see also
dictionaries

Delbrück, Max,
10.1
,
10.2

Deletionpedia,
14.1
,
14.2

Democritus

De Morgan, Augustus,
4.1
,
5.1
,
15.1

Dennett, Daniel,
10.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
15.1
,
15.2

deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA),
prl.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
10.6
,
10.7

diamond code,
10.1
,
10.2

Dibdin, Charles

Dickens, Charles,
4.1
n,
14.1

dictionaries,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
3.6
,
3.7
,
3.8
,
3.9
,
3.10
,
3.11
,
3.12
,
3.13
;
see also
Oxford English Dictionary

Dictionarium
(Thomas)

Diderot, Denis,
14.1
,
epl.1

Difference Engine,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
4.7
,
4.8
,
4.9
,
4.10
,
4.11
,
4.12
,
4.13
,
4.14
,
4.15
,
6.1

Differential Analyzer,
prl.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6
,
8.1

Differential and Integral Calculus
(Lacroix)

differential equations,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

“Digital Computers Called Brains, Of” (McCulloch)

digital technology,
6.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
12.1

Diringer, David

discrete information,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
12.1

D’Israeli, Isaac

Disreali, Benjamin

distortion of signal;
see
noise

DNA;
see
deoxyribonucleic acid

“Does One Sometimes Know Too Much?,”
15.1

domain names,
14.1
,
14.2

Donne, John

Doob, Joseph L.

Dowd, Maureen

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Dretske, Fred,
11.1
,
epl.1
,
ind.1

drums;
see
talking drums

Dupuy, Jean-Pierre,
epl.1
,
epl.2
,
epl.3

Dyer, Harrison Gray

echo

Eckart, Carl

Eckert, W. H.

economics

Babbage’s research on,
4.1
,
4.2

business of telegraphy,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5

commercial interest in telegraphy,
5.1
,
5.2

commercial interest in telephony,
6.1
,
6.2

cost of computation,
13.1
,
13.2

costs of computer memory

in information cloud

as information science

of number table production,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4

origins of mathematics and

Edison, Thomas A.,
5.1
,
12.1

Edwards, Mary

Egypt,
3.1
,
3.2

Einstein, Albert,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
9.1
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4

Eisenstein, Elizabeth,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3

electrical circuits

development of telegraphy,
1.1
,
1.2

noise in,
6.1
,
7.1

symbolic logic and,
prl.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5

transmission capacity of,
6.1
,
6.2

electricity

amplitude modulation,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

biological analogies for

evolution of scientific understanding of,
5.1
,
5.2

in measurement of communication

public response to new technologies of

recognition of communication potential of,
5.1
,
5.2

source of noise in

technical demands of telephony,
6.1
,
6.2

see also
electrical circuits; telegraphy

Electric Telegraph Company,
5.1
,
5.2

Elements of Electro-Biology
(Smee)

Elias, Peter,
8.1
,
8.2

Eliot, T. S.,
3.1
,
15.1

Elyot, Thomas

e-mail,
2.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
14.1
,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Encyclopaedia Britannica,
7.1
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
14.4
,
epl.1

encyclopedias,
prl.1
,
epl.1
,
epl.2
;
see also specific encyclopedia

Encyclopédie,
14.1

Enderton, Herbert

energy

in concept of entropy,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

cost of information processing,
13.1
,
13.2

information and,
prl.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
13.1

Maxwell’s demon,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
9.6
,
9.7
,
9.8
,
9.9
,
10.1
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
15.1
,
epl.1

perpetual motion machine,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

in physics of black holes

see also
thermodynamics

England,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
8.1
,
8.2
;
see also
English language

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