Meaning in the age of social media

"Information is the currency of life," Christoph Adami recently told Quanta. "One definition of information is the ability to make predictions with a likelihood better than chance." I've never heard anyone define information in quite that way before—as an "ability" or capacity. It's pithy and catchy as far as it goes, yet I'm not so sure I'd use it to characterize Claude Shannon's position on information (something Adami has done elsewhere). Adami's "is" complicates the definition, for if info...