Life After Capitalism: The Great Challenge of the Coming Era

Uniting the infocosm and the cryptocosm… [Gilder's Daily Prophecy] September 14, 2020 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( | [ARCHIVES]( “I’ve laid out a $32 MILLION BOUNTY on the mainstream media.” [video]( mainstream media is stealing your freedom AND your money — it’s time to fight back. I’ve spent $32 MILLION to expose how every day Americans, with no special training, can harness the power of the media for a chance to collect BIG checks like $8,950… $11,400… and even a rare $54,000 almost every Monday morning. Take back your freedom and your money. [Click here now to join me today.]( Life After Capitalism: The Great Challenge of the Coming Era [George Gilder]Dear Daily Prophecy Reader, The invention we now call “information theory” came from Claude Shannon’s 1948 paper “A Mathematical Theory of Communication.” It defined information as “unexpected bits,” or “surprisal.” Measured by the logarithm of the probabilities of the elements in a message, it allows the calculation of the carrying capacity of a communications channel, whether a wire or the world, by simple addition of the base-2 logarithms. Because probabilities are fractions between 0 and 1, Shannon put a negative sign before the sum. A negative times a negative is a positive. Thus, the information content is always positive. [Gilder: "This Global 'Reboot' Will Be Great News..."]( The Concept of Thermodynamic Entropy… And Why It Matters The great John von Neumann, one of the inventors of quantum theory and of prevailing computer architecture, was a colleague of Shannon’s at Bell Labs. It’s alleged that he suggested naming the information gauge “entropy.” Shannon’s information index shared a formal equation with the concept of thermodynamic entropy. Here began a gigantic confusion that has persisted for nearly three quarters of a century. Believing that information inheres in the identifiable patterns of a code — such as an orderly language, physical arrangement, or DNA helix — brilliant scholars around the world have jumped to define information as order. And they are correct that order is necessary to intelligible information. To bear unpredictably informative bits, it takes a predictable code or language or framework of regularity. As I have written, it takes a low-entropy (predictable) carrier to bear high-entropy (unpredictable) information. Unless you can separate the message from the carrier at the other end of the line, no information can be received. But the fundamental error afflicting most economic thought is the idea that the essence of information is a patterned carrier... rather than the unexpected or surprising modulation of the predictable carrier. Because the electromagnetic spectrum is an infinite expanse of frequencies regulated everywhere by the ultimate physical constant of the velocity of light, most of the world’s information is flowing toward the spectrum as a carrier. It is always possible to separate the message from the speed-of-light carrier. Both forms of entropy measure degrees of disorder. Thermodynamic entropy measures the breakdown of orderly systems of physics and chemistry — such as organic or inorganic structures — into disorderly and random arrangements of atoms and molecules. Information entropy measures the degree of “surprisal” in a message, which is also a kind of disorder. For example, the logarithm of the probabilities of one bit, with two possible outcomes, is 1 (2^1 equals 2; the base-2 log of 2 is 1). The logarithm of the probabilities of a byte of 8 bits is 3 (2x2x2). This index of information enables network architects and telecommunications engineers to calculate the information-bearing capacity of any wire, fiber optic thread, expanse of “air,” or satellite link to move information from one point to another in space. It also measures the capacity of a memory chip or disk to store and transfer information. By basing information on surprisal, it can measure creativity, which is also gauged by its surprise. Providentially calculated by the degrees of freedom of a message’s creator — the size of his portfolio of possibilities — Shannon’s theory ties the economics of growth and creativity inexorably to the defense of liberty. As Shannon anticipated, it further enables biologists to measure the capacity of the human genome to transmit the information that characterizes life. In a paper entitled “An Algebra for Theoretical Genetics,” he showed how to calculate the capacity of the genome. The communication of the intricate codes of life-bearing information over the millennia is incomparably the most impressive feat of information storage and transmission in the universe. He’s Done It — This Is Bigger Than 5G 5G. AI. Self-driving cars. Everywhere, you’ve heard at least one of these called “the biggest tech market investing story of the next five years.” Not so fast, says the man who’s been called “America’s top technology profit” and an “American genius” by international media. Something else is coming on the tech horizon. Something potentially bigger than all those breakthroughs. With a potential $16.8 trillion impact worldwide. [Follow this link for full details — I guarantee, you didn’t see this coming.]( [America's #1 Futurist Makes Big Prediction]( How DNA Could Solve Our Information Storage Problem DNA storage and communication is not only a matter of the past. The future of information storage may not be silicon chips but carbon DNA molecules. As an article in the March 2, 2017 issue of Science by Robert Service observed, DNA has the potential to solve the information storage problem of a knowledge economy. DNA has many advantages for storing digital data. It’s ultracompact, and it can last hundreds of thousands of years if kept in a cool, dry place. And as long as human societies are reading and writing DNA, they will be able to decode it. “DNA won’t degrade over time like cassette tapes and CDs, and it won’t become obsolete,’ says Yaniv Erlich, a computer scientist at Columbia University.” Several startups are pursuing this grail. Although Shannon was skeptical of efforts to extend his concept of information into other fields, the relationship between low-entropy carriers and high-entropy messages is relevant to music, art, literature, and many other fields, such as economics. Shannon’s entropy of surprisal is the foundation of the information theory of economics, in which progress is measured by the surprisal inherent in entrepreneurial creativity. Little known is the fact that Shannon first broached the term “information theory” during World War II. At Bell Labs in New York City, he was working on secret codes for the military in a paper called “A Mathematical Theory of Cryptography.” The paper was immediately classified. But it introduced the ideas that he later enshrined in 1948 in his Theory of Communications. Cryptography is a kind of inverted or negative form of information or disinformation theory; as Shannon remarked, “They are so close together you cannot separate them.” Nonetheless, the creators of the internet separated them. They focused almost entirely on communication, modulation, and mutability rather than on security, factuality, and immutability. The internet model maximized propagation and copying rather than ground states and secure identities. Security became a post-hack patchwork rather than an architectural endowment. Today’s Prophecy The great challenge of the new LAC era (Life After Capitalism) will be to endow the architecture of the internet and the world economy with this complement of Shannon’s high-entropy information: the low-entropy carriers of security and factuality, true money and measurement. In the new era, the separation of the Shannon’s inseparables — carriers and content, cryptography and information theory, measurement and money, order and disorder — will be reversed. We will transcend the sterile categories of a capitalism defined and stigmatized by Marxian materialism and achieve an understanding of human progress as the surprising creations of entrepreneurs. Bringing back together the infocosm with the cryptocosm, we can remedy the tragic separation of communication from truth that has debauched the world’s money and its information as well. Regards, [George Gilder] George Gilder Editor, Gilder's Daily Prophecy Donald Trump, One-Term President? [Trump looking disappointed]( [My colleague just published an urgent video.]( By this time next year, a radical change in America could take place… President Trump could move from the Swamp in Washington D.C… to New York City… And America might never be the same for you, your money or your family when it happens… [Click here now to see why…]( [Gilder Press] To end your Gilder's Daily Prophecy e-mail subscription and associated external offers sent from Gilder's Daily Prophecy, [click here to unsubscribe](. If you are having trouble receiving your Gilder's Daily Prophecy subscription, you can ensure its arrival in your mailbox by [whitelisting Gilder's Daily Prophecy.]( Gilder's Daily Prophecy is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Please read [our Privacy Statement.]( Gilder Press, a division of Laissez Faire Books, LLC. 808 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore MD 21202. Nothing in this e-mail should be considered personalized financial advice. Although our employees may answer your general customer service questions, they are not licensed under securities laws to address your particular investment situation. No communication by our employees to you should be deemed as personalized financial advice. We expressly forbid our writers from having a financial interest in any security recommended to our readers. All of our employees and agents must wait 24 hours after online publication or 72 hours after the mailing of a printed-only publication prior to following an initial recommendation. Any investments recommended in this letter should be made only after consulting with your investment advisor and only after reviewing the prospectus or financial statements of the company. © 2020 Gilder Press, a division of Laissez Faire Books, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright laws of the United States and international treaties. This newsletter may only be used pursuant to the subscription agreement and any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including on the world wide web), in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Gilder Press, a division of Laissez Faire Books, LLC. EMAIL REFERENCE ID: 401GDPED01