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Analogia by Dyson, George
Category: Science
In a world where humans coexist with technologies they no longer control or understand, who holds the future?George Dyson plots a thrilling and unexpected course through 300 years of history and science to reveal the hidden connections that underpin the digital transformation of the current age, ending ...Show more
Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines by George Dyson
Category: Science
A spellbinding exploration of the emergence of the digital age and an unsettling vision of what comes nextIn a world where humans coexist with technologies they no longer control or understand, who holds the future? George Dyson plots a thrilling and unexpected course through 300 years of history and sc ...Show more
Project Orion: The Atomic Spac by George Dyson
Category: Fiction | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
In 1957, the US government sponsored a project - codename "Orion" - to develop a 40,000-ton manned spaceship propelled by nuclear bombs. This book tells the story of the author's father, Freeman Dyson, a brillaint mathematician, and member of the "Orion" team.
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
Category: Science
"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence," twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In "Turing's Cathedral," George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, ...Show more
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
Category: Science
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 government's race to creat ...Show more
Turing's Cathedral : The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
Category: Science & Natural History
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
Category: Science
George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: "Turing's Cathedral" is the story behind how the PC, ipod, smartphone and almost every aspect of modern life came into being. In 1945 a small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at the Institute for Advanced Study i ...Show more
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