{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern","title":"Dr. Melvin Vopson 'The environmental weight of data'","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/8d6ceb63\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3931,"description":"Dr Melvin Vopson is a truly fascinating character and deep thinker. A physicist, he is the proposer of the mass-energy-information equivalence principle, has identified a technological singularity called the Information Catastrophe and has discovered the second law of information dynamics. Melvin is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the world's first Information Physics Institute. His current scientific interests revolve around theoretical and experimental studies involving all aspects of information physics. I started by asking Melvin about his theory that information has its own weight, a weight independent of the device it is stored on.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/WtQXM5YkHmIbl1x6ZjNQfIxBR8YGxi2GHFli7ZvW3Qs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NGQy/MTg0YTE1YzY2Yjhj/YWQ1ZGU2ZmVkNWEy/MzIyZC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}