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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 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.''