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Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control

Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control

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Technology & EngineeringGeneral Computers

Publisher Price: $23.99

ISBN10: 1250798728
ISBN13: 9781250798725
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Aug 17 2021
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.94
Height: 1.05 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

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 complete

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