In 1948, Claude Shannon introduced a theory so powerful it became the foundation of the digital age — and the reason you’re even hearing this podcast.

In this episode of Decode: Science, we break down Shannon’s “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”, the paper that gave us the concept of the bit, quantified information, and reframed how we think about noise, meaning, and signal.

What is information, really? How did Shannon’s formulas change engineering, neuroscience, and even genetics? We decode the blueprint of the Information Age.

Paper: https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf