It was "The Black Cloud" that first pumped my intuition about information theory and the idea of the arbitrariness of the medium by which information is apprehended.
Previous research in virtual project teams focussed principally on the medium by which information is spread, for example, by phone, mail, or videoconferencing.
But until people regain trust in what they read (and what they see, for that matter), the rest is superfluous, and the long, slow decline will continue regardless of the medium through which information is conveyed.
These improvements or enhancements often rely on altering standard paper consent documents or elements of the process, or medium in which information is delivered or by which consent is obtained.
That "small band" had surrounded James D. Watson and Francis H. C. Crick, who in 1953 revealed the double-helix structure of DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, the molecule that is the medium in which genetic information is stored and passed from generation to generation.
The purpose of this aspect of the study is to attempt to quantify the differences in the predictions of properties of the same system being modelled when such internal structure of the composite medium and spatial correlation information is and is not available.
What is new is the medium on which the information is delivered.
The first one allows further constraining the model with respect to the medium composition, if this information is available.
According to McLuhan, a document is the "medium" in which a "message" (information) is communicated [1].
But in the past few years, Harris says that he realizes that the browseritself is part of the medium that will shape how information is really accessible.
