Paul G Schreier, Contributing Editor Entropy, a term from thermodynamics, describes the amount of disorder in a system. As physicists like to say, the entropy of the universe tends towards a maximum. In other words, disorder increases. We experience entropy in many ways.
Hot things tend to cool off.
Our bodies deteriorate. Unless my wife intervenes, my office tends toward a messier state. Some people see entropy at work in the realm of digital content. In their eyes, the convergence universe is moving rapidly toward disorder. Digital content is tending toward unfettered distribution.