  The paper serves as the first contribution towards the development of the
theory of efficiency: a unifying framework for the currently disjoint theories
of information, complexity, communication and computation. Realizing the
defining nature of the brute force approach in the fundamental concepts in all
of the above mentioned fields, the paper suggests using efficiency or
improvement over the brute force algorithm as a common unifying factor
necessary for the creation of a unified theory of information manipulation. By
defining such diverse terms as randomness, knowledge, intelligence and
computability in terms of a common denominator we are able to bring together
contributions from Shannon, Levin, Kolmogorov, Solomonoff, Chaitin, Yao and
many others under a common umbrella of the efficiency theory.
