Norbert Wiener on Information and Entropy

The commands through which we exercise our control over our environment are a kind of information which we impart to it. Like any form of information, these commands are subject to disorganization in transit. They generally come through in less coherent fashion and certainly not more coherently than they were sent. In control and communication we are always fighting nature’s tendency to degrade the organized and to destroy the meaningful; the tendency as Gibbs has shown us, for entropy to increase.

Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society