t. s. eliot kind of prophetically said where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? where is the knowledge we have lost an information. he said that in the 1930's. i do a little bit of a double take. but isn't that the question we are all asking now? >> right. right. on the one hand we are almost omniscient, and on the other hand we feel that we don't know anything. >> you know, i felt like reading this book, obviously some years ago you wrote a book called chaos. chaos was essentially reviewing the order behind seeing randomness. this book to me seems in no way to be about revealing the randomness or the imperfection or the incompleteness behind what we think of as the tools that we used to define our reality. is that the way you thought of it? >> low, there are definitely connections. there are some technical connections that i know you are aware of between the science of chaos and information theory. in fact i first heard of information theory when i was first working on the chaos but from some of the scientists that i was getting to know. there were using this thi