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{{Def|Entropy|/ˈɛntrəpi/|n|[[File: Bradbury Building Blade Runner.jpg|450px|center]]}}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 | {{Def|Entropy|/ˈɛntrəpi/|n|[[File: Bradbury Building Blade Runner.jpg|450px|center]]}}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 analysis|systems]] that preserve or enhance [[signal-to-noise ratio|''signal'']] in defiance of our inevitable slide into ''noise''. | ||
{{Quote|''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.'' | {{Quote|''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.'' | ||
:{{author|Philip K. Dick}}, {{br|Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?}}}} | :{{author|Philip K. Dick}}, {{br|Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?}}}} | ||
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*The [[boredom heat death]] of the universe. | *The [[boredom heat death]] of the universe. | ||
*The [[Intermediate broker|place]] betwixt an [[executing broker]] and a [[clearing member]]. | *The [[Intermediate broker|place]] betwixt an [[executing broker]] and a [[clearing member]]. | ||
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*[[Systems theory]] | |||
*[[signal-to-noise ratio]] | |||
{{Draft}}{{egg}} | {{Draft}}{{egg}} | ||