To understand how our world functions today requires a better ecological understanding of the information environment. Such knowledge would help us address and mitigate our impacts on climate change; on limited natural resources over-consumption; on much-needed and long overdue economic and political changes; on paths to greater social equity. Those and other existential challenges cannot be effectively dealt with without a better understanding of “The Nature of Information.”

Information, energy and matter are fundamental to the formation and evolution of the Universe. At the micro level, information and communication are determining factors in the biochemical origins of the building blocks of life: the reproduction of lipids, proteins, RNA and DNA.

This Town Talk will give the public a look into the work and challenges being addressed at Arts & Sciences: Telluride 2024 – an eight-day series of talks and workshops addressing ecological ways of understanding the information environment.