"It is probably dangerous to use this theory of information in fields for which it was not designed, but I think the danger will not keep people from using it. In psychology, at least in the psychology of communication, it seems to fit with a fair approximation. When it occurs that the learnability of material is roughly proportional to the information content calculated | by the theory, I think it looks interesting. There may have to be modifications, of course. For example, I think that the human receiver of information gets more out of a message that is encoded into a broad vocabulary (an extensive set of symbols) and presented at a slow pace, than from a message, equal in information content, that is encoded into a restricted set of symbols and presented at a faster pace. Nevertheless, the elementary parts of the theory appear to be very useful. I say it may be dangerous to use them, but I don’t think the danger will scare us off."
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Licklider (1950) quotes in: Claude E. Shannon "The redundancy of English". In: Claus Pias, Heinz von Foerster eds. (2003) Cybernetics: Transactions. p. 270.
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J. C. R. Licklider
J. C. R. Licklider (March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990) was an American computer scientist. He is particularly remembered for being one of the first to foresee modern-style interactive computing, and its application to all manner of activities, which he did much to initiate.
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