Thanks to Claude Shannon, you're able to read this article on a screen right now. This loving documentary, from video essay channel Delve, neatly depicts the father of information theory and his early work.

In 1948, Shannon published a paper with a radical idea: all information, everything from an image of a Matisse to the sound of horns on a Sinatra album, can be condensed into a coin toss. All that's required to relay the information is a series of binary answers: a yes a no, a one or a zero, a black pixel or a white pixel. That idea became the backbone of the Information Age.