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
