George Dyson

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand George Dyson plots an unexpected course through the past 300 years to reveal the hidden connections that underpin our digital age ending with a premonition of what lies ahead From an eighteenth century Russian voyage across the North Pacific to the mirror signals that heralded the age of digital telecommunications and the invention of the vacuum tube Analogia interweaves historical adventure with scientific insight in a deeply personal story that frames the pursuit and cost of the digital revolution in a captivating new light

Full of historical anecdotes . . . but this is much more than a history book. [George Dyson] weaves his threads together for a purpose. Using voices of the past and present, he describes a fresh and sometimes startling viewpoint of the emerging relationship between nature and machines. From vignettes about Olaf Stapledon, George Boole, John von Neumann, and Samuel Butler, a larger story develops in which the twin processes of intelligence and evolution are inseparably intertwined Danny Hillis, Wired

How did computers take over the world? In late 1945, a small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their ostensible goal was to build a computer which would be instrumental in the US governments race to create a hydrogen bomb. The mathematicians themselves, however, saw their project as the realization of Alan Turings theoretical universal machine.In Turings Cathedral, George Dyson vividly re-creates the intense experimentation, incredible mathematical insight and pure creative genius that led to the dawn of the digital universe, uncovering a wealth of new material to bring a human story of extraordinary men and women and their ideas to life. From the lowliest iPhone app to Googles sprawling metazoan codes, we now live in a world of self-replicating numbers and self-reproducing machines whose origins go back to a 5-kilobyte matrix that still holds clues as to what may lie ahead.

La reveladora historia de cómo surgió el universo digital tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial.«Es posible inventar una sola máquina que pueda utilizarse para computar cualquier secuencia computable», anun

La reveladora historia de cómo surgió el universo digital tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial. «Es posible inventar una sola máquina que pueda utilizarse para computar cualquier secuencia computable», anu

La reveladora historia de cómo surgió el universo digital tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial.«Es posible inventar una sola máquina que pueda utilizarse para computar cualquier secuencia computable», anu