How Claude Shannon Invented the Future

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/

"When I started graduate school, my adviser told me that the best work would prune the tree of knowledge, rather than grow it. I didn’t know what to make of this message then; I always thought my job as a researcher was to add my own twigs."