It's interesting to think about how technology has increased humanity's control over entropy. While entropy is generally increasing, a lot of new technology can be simplified to a new way of decreasing entropy. Especially in the field of biotech and gene therapy. Evolution is based on entropy and yet the cutting edge of biology has become guiding or in some cases undoing the effects of it.<p>I think it's against human ambition to surrender to entropy. Religion has emphasized surrender as a way to find peace but I don't personally see how those words do anything except placate. There's no deeper meaning to surrendering, other than what someone gives to it. Progress isn't made in calm waters.<p>To a certain degree, it is looking at different sides of the same coin. Surrendering to a higher power to find meaning in entropy as opposed to surrendering to the fact that there might not be a deeper meaning or higher power. Giving up on feeling "peace" is an option too.
Entropy is the lack of information, <i>not</i> disorder :<p><a href="http://www.av8n.com/physics/thermo/entropy.html#sec-s-vs-disorder" rel="nofollow">http://www.av8n.com/physics/thermo/entropy.html#sec-s-vs-dis...</a><p>Also, the system that we see having an increase in entropy is [the Sun + the photons it emitted], not just the Sun.
The article would have been a lot better if it had mentioned the classical definition of entropy (by Clausius), which is essentially energy dividided by temperature. From this definition it is easy to see that incoming energy from the Sun at 5700 K which is then dissipated at 250 K, will result in a local entropy decrease.
A related great read is the book Into the Cool[1]. Highly recommend.<p>[1] <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo3533936.html" rel="nofollow">https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo353393...</a>