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Describes a fresh viewpoint of the emerging relationship between nature and machines.

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Leben und Tod einer Legende Er war der beste Rapper der Welt. Hat Millionen von Platten verkauft. Mit Drogen gehandelt. Im Gefängnis gesessen. Und wurde Opfer eines Attentats, dessen Hintergründe bis heute ungeklärt sind. Die Faszination von Tupac Shakur, der als 2pac Musikgeschichte geschrieben hat, ist auch Jahrzehnte nach seiner Ermordung ungebrochen. Seine posthum veröffentlichten Alben, Gedichte und Filme haben ihn zu einer Legende werden...

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 dig...

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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, seeking to initiate a digitally-computed takeover of the world. In his classic books, Darwin Among the Machines and Tur...

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, seeking to initiate a digitally-computed takeover of the world. In his classic books, Darwin Among the Machines and Tur...

Questo libro, opera di un grande musicista e compositore inglese, è il riuscito tentativo di tratteggiare con aderente naturalezza le tappe del "progresso" musicale: dalla musica rituale dei popoli primitivi alla musica gregoriana, dalla sensuale polifonia pre-rinascimentale allo sviluppo della musica strumentale del Cinquecento, sino al virtuosismo orchestrale del tardo Romanticismo, senza tralasciare di approfondire il fenomeno della diffusi...

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Excerpt from Rhymes From the Mines, and Other LinesThe greater part of the material contained in this volume has appeared in the pages of The Bulletin, Sydney, from time to time during the last eight years. 'the Rescue' and 'peter Simson's Farm' were published originally in the Melbourne Argus. I have to thank the proprietors of both journals for their courtesy in permitting me to reproduce the verses.About the PublisherForgotten Books publish...

È possibile inventare una singola macchina che possa essere usata per calcolare qualsiasi sequenza computabile". Con queste parole Alan Turing, il leggendario matematico che riuscì a decrittare il codice enigma dei nazisti, immaginò nel 1936 l'esistenza di quello che per noi oggi è un oggetto quotidiano: il computer. Quasi vent'anni dopo, nel 1953, un gruppo di fisici e ingegneri guidati dal genio di John von Neumann diede forma alla profetica...

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.

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.

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Excerpt from Rhymes From the Mines, and Other Lines The greater part of the material contained in this volume has appeared in the pages of The Bulletin, Sydney, from time to time during the last eight years. 'the Rescue' and 'peter Simson's Farm' were published originally in the Melbourne Argus. I have to thank the proprietors of both journals for their courtesy in permitting me to reproduce the verses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books p...

A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world. In the 1940s and '50s, a small group of men and women-led by John von Neumann-gathered in Princeton, New Jersey, to be...

As timely now as it was when it was first published in 1997, Darwin Among the Machines tells the story of humankind's long journey into the digital age. Historian of technology George Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries- from Thomas Hobbes to John von Neumann- who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, and artificial mind. Weaving a convincing, occa...