In 1948, the American engineer Claude Shannon published a scientific article titled "A mathematical theory of communication". In it, he posed the basis of what he called "Information theory", the study of how to quantify, transmit and process information. Probably without even realising it, with his paper Shannon was effectively building the founding pillars of a whole new discipline, a science that would allow some of the major technological and scientific breakthroughs in human history. Information theory is at the basis of the Internet, it is what allows us to listen to digital music, watch digital videos, and read digital text. But it was also fundamental to the success of the Voyager missions to deep space, the invention of mobile phones, the study of linguistics and of human perception, the understanding of black holes, and many other things. One single person, with a few words in a short mathematical paper, was taking a large number of impossible things, and making them possible.

This is what science does. It doesn't listen to the will of the people. It doesn't bend to fashion, or money, or superstition. It doesn't need multitudes: science is made in solitude. Science is there, and it has always been there. It is just waiting for someone to find it, write it on a piece of paper, and make the impossible.

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