Entropy

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Entropy /ˈɛntrəpi/ (n.)
A warm, tepid place, rather like a recently-sat-upon lavatory seat. Also, where we are all going. The challenge is to create and defend systems that preserve or enhance signal in defiance of our inevitable slide into noise.

He lived alone in this deteriorating, blind building of a thousand uninhabited apartments, which like all its counterparts, fell, day by day, into greater entropic ruin. Eventually everything within the building would merge, would be faceless and identical, mere pudding-like kipple piled to the ceiling of each apartment. And, after that, the uncared-for building itself would settle into shapelessness, buried under the ubiquity of the dust.

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Could refer to:

• Any of the Jolly Contrarian’s:

• first law of worker entropy
• second law of worker entropy
• third law of worker entropy
• fourth law of worker entropy
• fifth law of worker entropy
• sixth law of worker entropy or
• seventh law of worker entropy.

• The boredom heat death of the universe.
• The place betwixt an executing broker and a clearing member.

See also

• Systems theory
• signal-to-noise ratio