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Beyond discovering/inventing Shannon channel capacity, which determines the limit on how fast you can send data across any given medium, Shannon drew the connection between Boolean Algebra and digital circuits and invented a lot of amusing machinery.
- “I’ve always pursued my interests without much regard for final value or value to the world,” [Shannon] said cheerfully. “I’ve spent lots of time on totally useless things.”