Dyson George - Analogia The Emergence Of Technology Beyond Programmable Control - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Named one of Wired's " The Best Pop Culture That Got Us Through 2020" In Analogia technology historian George Dyson presents a startling look back at the analog age and life before the digital revolution and an unsettling vision of what comes next. In 1716, the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz spent eight days taking the cure with Peter the Great at Bad Pyrmont in Saxony trying to persuade the tsar to launch a voyage of discovery from Russia to America and to adopt digital computing as the foundation for a remaking of life on earth. In two classic books Darwin Among the Machines and Turing's Cathedral George Dyson chronicled the realization of the second of Leibniz's visions. In Analogia his pathbreaking new book he brings the story full circle starting with the Russian American expedition of 1741 and ending with the beyond - digital revolution that will completethe transformation of the world. Dyson enlists a startling cast of characters from the time of Catherine the Great to the age of machine intelligence and draws heavily on his own experiences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey and onward to the rain forest of the Northwest Coast. We are Dyson reveals entering a new epoch in human history one driven by a generation of machines whose powers are no longer under programmable control. Includes black - and - white illustrations
Title: Analogia The Emergence Of Technology Beyond Programmable Control
Author(s): Dyson George
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250798725
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/17/2021