Russian Federation of Independent States?

Does this mock _Computer Power and Human Reason_?

Indistinguishable, magic, technology... But it does happen that a design changes abruptly, without prior notice, and without bringing improvement.

I wish I knew what exactly "information" is in this context. I know a couple of definitions, but none seems to match.

What is needed, I believe, is a definition of information that is as rigorous as, say, the definition of energy. By the way, a fundamental tenet of Shannon's theory is that (quantity of) information is defined in terms of the _expectation_ of its recipient, so it seems a rather different beast than the quantities with which physics deals.

Indeed; for some aspects of the study ten years ago was a different epoch.