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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 with a premonition of what might follow. From an eighteenth-century Russian expedition to the furthest reaches of North America, to the mirror signals that heralded the age of digital long-range communications and invention of the vacuum tube, Analogia interweaves historical adventure wit scientific insight in a deeply personal story that frame the pursuit - and cost - of the digital revolution in a captivating new light.
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Analogia : The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines, George Dyson
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- 2022
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- Title
- Analogia : The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines
- Language
- English
- Authors
- George Dyson
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0141975431
- ISBN13
- 9780141975436
- Series
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- 3 out of 5
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- 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 with a premonition of what might follow. From an eighteenth-century Russian expedition to the furthest reaches of North America, to the mirror signals that heralded the age of digital long-range communications and invention of the vacuum tube, Analogia interweaves historical adventure wit scientific insight in a deeply personal story that frame the pursuit - and cost - of the digital revolution in a captivating new light.