He broke everything into bits

Goodman et al features mathematician Claude Shannon and his creation Theseus, a modern mouse with copper whiskers expert at solving labyrinths. Among other things, the publication of Shannon's ground breaking paper "A Theory of Communication," which introduced the bit, or binary digit, the fundamental measure of information and the bedrock of information age and proves that digital code could represent any kind of message compressing them and slashing the amount of time money it wound take to send them is also discussed.