Vagenas, Elias C.; Zhu, Tao; Singleton, Douglas
(Springer Verlag (Germany): SCOAP3Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)IOP Publishing, 2014)
John Wheeler coined the phrase "it from bit" or "bit from it" in the 1980s. However, much of the interest in the connection between information, i.e. "bits", and physical objects; i.e. "its", stems from the discovery that ...