Communication Quote by Anatol Rapoport
“The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if not impossible.”
About This Quote
Source Paper: “From Information to Meaning”, 1975
Shifting from technical data to semantic meaning is extremely challenging.
In simple terms: Turning raw data into meaning is hard.
Bridge technical and human perspectives.
Themes
Mood
Type
When to use this quote
- software development
- education
- cross‑disciplinary research
- AI language models
Key Concepts
Questions to Reflect On
- What tools help translate data into meaning?
- Can technical terms be made intuitive?
The quote may overstate difficulty for some domains.