Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this approach to studying information, when it is useful, when it is not useful, when it is productive and what are the limits of its productivity.

Critical debates

Scientists and engineers in the 1940s and 1950s worked to develop a general concept of “information” applicable across media and historical contexts. Explain whether you think one can speak of information in this manner.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this approach to studying information, when it is useful, when it is not useful, when it is productive and what are the limits of its productivity.