Everything can be reduced to a series of numbers only used by 1 and 0. It sounded impossible to me at first. Everything done online is written into information that is either ‘true’ or ‘false’. A pattern of two digits interprets this information. Claude Shannon, a bonafide genius, is responsible for a significant part of modern technology. In Bell Lab’s Research Journal he coined the term ‘bit’ as a reference to a binary digit. Because of this, we have ways of representing a human brain's capability of remembering information. Which Stephen Hawking explained to be ‘50 Harry Potter books worth of bits’. Information theory allows encrypted information to be on every product you purchase. This barcode explains what the item is, how much it weighs, and what it costs. When swiped at the front desk, this information is instantaneous. It is an efficient way of transferring information to benefit an economy. Shannon graduated from MIT with a double major in mathematics and electrical engineering. Years later, he went on to make advancements with AI and chess. He even predicted what is known as ‘Shannon’s number’. 10120 represents the entropy of a chess game is greater than the atoms in the universe. There are too many possibilities of how the game could play out. His abstract genius in numbers is my favorite scientific discovery by being ahead of his time. It enables me to type this essay and for you to evaluate it.