# It from Bit: Cross-Cultural & Interdisciplinary Links in Modern Computing

Jennifer Baum Sevec identifies cross-cultural and interdisciplinary contributions to modern computing using items from the Library of Congress collections. Baum Sevec leverages the information theory of pioneering physicist John Archibald Wheeler, who proposed that the fundamental significance of existence--the "it from bit"--originates in the information-theoretic source of binary indications or bits. The observer-participant dynamic was an elemental part of Wheeler's theory which will figure into Baum Sevec's analysis.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2016
- By: John W. Kluge Center (library Of Congress)
- Genres: Science
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690134/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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