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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 How 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.
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 in Princeton, determined to build
a computer that would make Alan Turing's theory of a 'universal
machine' reality. Led by the polymath emigre John von Neumann, they
created the numerical framework that underpins almost all modern
computing - and ensured that the world would never be the same
again. George Dyson is a historian of technology whose interests
include the development (and redevelopment) of the Aleut kayak. He
is the author of Baidarka; Project Orion; and Darwin Among the
Machines. 'Unusual, wonderful, visionary' Francis Spufford,
Guardian 'Fascinating . . . the story Dyson tells is intensely
human . . . a gripping account of ideas and inventionFascinating .
. . the story Dyson tells is intensely human . . . a gripping
account of ideas and invention' Jenny Uglow 'Glorious . . . as much
a story of the personalities involved as of the discoveries they
made, and you do not need any knowledge of computers or mathematics
to enjoy the ride . . . a ripping yarn' John Gribbin, Literary
Review
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 How 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.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
'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
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