# Inevitable Future: Human and Machine

> The Inescapable Truth of Information

**Published by:** [The Through—Line](https://paragraph.com/@thethroughline/)
**Published on:** 2023-02-15
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We can prolong the change, we just can’t stop it from happening. Progress is about the evolutionary tale of information. Not evolutionary tale of humans. We are all a composition of information. Information only wants to optimize for one thing, and one thing only, processing & compression. Well, maybe two things. Processing: the ability to flow as much information through a pipeline as possible. For example: * How many cars can drive through a residential road or highway? * How fast can you download Tupac - Dear Mama from Napster or Limewire? * How many people fit through aisle 9 at your grocery store? * How much water flows through your garden hose? This is all about how many or how much X information can fit through something, be it a grocery aisle, highway, street road, internet cable, or garden hose. The second part, compression. Compression: the ability to compress information down to the least amount of information without losing the original message. For example: * This one is a bit harder to draw up examples simply because the idea is about getting a packet of information, compressing it down, and then send it across a pipeline i.e. processing. Maybe I should add the states, memory-states. ?? \

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