Since we are on the topic, does anyone know what Shannon was up to after disrupting 3 fields? ... He got into ball juggling and built the mathematical theory that led to creation of an automated juggling machine: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/project....

He actually showed that ball juggling is one of the most complex cognitive tasks that a human can undertake: "The physical constraints that affect mastery and limit the number of objects juggled arise from gravity - more specifically, Newtonian mechanics (h=1/2gt2). Each ball must be thrown sufficiently high to allow the juggler time to deal with the other balls. The need for either speed or height increases rapidly with the number of objects juggled."