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INFORMATION EDGE, Hardback Book

INFORMATION EDGE Hardback

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Creation and Destruction in Life, the Economy, and the Universe.

During the 2008 global financial crisis, MIT quantum physicist Seth Lloyd was struck by a strange pattern.

Viewed from a mathematical perspective, the failure of the world economy looked a lot like the gravitational collapse of a star into a black hole.

It also looked like the formation of a cancerous tumour in an otherwise healthy body, and like to catastrophic destruction of ecosystems.

On the other hand, it also looked like a certain theory of how life got started in the first place.

Here was the logic of collapse, of creation and destruction, reduced to its mathematical signature.

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