Claude Shannon's 'The Bandwagon': A warning against hype from the info age
vsikka · x · 2026-08-21
Vikram Singh shares Claude Shannon's essay 'The Bandwagon'. Written by the father of the Information Age, its warning against blind trend-chasing remains highly relevant for the current AI landscape.
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