information engine

A theoretical engine that converts information into energy for use in work, decreasing heat entropy in the process.

Noun

  1. A theoretical engine that converts information into energy for use in work, decreasing heat entropy in the process.
  2. A data processor.
    • As one of its engineers blogged in 2012, Google was transforming itself from an “information engine” to a “knowledge engine.” - 2021, Michele Kennerly et al., editors, Information, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

Forms

information engines

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