This duality can be pursued further and is related to a duality between past and future and the notions of control and knowledge. Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it.

— Claude Shannon, Coding Theorems for a Discrete Source With a Fidelity Criterion (1959)

Source: https://www.gwern.net/docs/cs/1959-shannon.pdf

From a 1959 IRE International Convention Record paper.

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