The Information-Computation Turn: A Hacking-Type Revolution: Information-Laden Science : a Hacking-Type Revolution

Hacking’s Styles of Reasoning (Hacking 1981, 1992) are utilized to
describe the impact Information Theory has had on science in the 20th century in theory and application. A generalized, Information-laden scientific style of
reasoning is introduced, generalizing the information-theoretical and
computational turn in science and society. Information-laden science will be
examined according to Hacking's criteria for a new Style, and its associated
'revolution' (Schweber and Watcher, 2000). These criteria include a new scientific
vocabulary as well as a wider social and conceptual context. The specific branch of
science chosen to exhibit the new style is physics, which manifests a wide range of
a style's attributes: science in an information-age (‘e-science’); hard-theoretical
physics such as Black-Hole Thermodynamics (BHTD) and the consequent Black-
Hole Wars (Suskind, 2008); the advent of Quantum Information Theory (QIT) –
namely Quantum Information and Quantum Computation.