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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 42 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Donald Corren. |
| Summary |
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 Turings Cathedral, Dyson chronicled the realization of Leibnizs dream at the hands of a series of iconoclasts who brought his ideas to life. Now, in his path breaking new book, Analogia, he offers a chronicle of people who fought for the other side - the Native American leader Geronimo and physicist Leo Szilard, among them - a series of stories that will change our view not only of the past but also of the future. The convergence of a startling historical archaeology with Dysons unusual personal story - set alternately in the rarified world of cutting-edge physics and computer science, in Princeton, and in the rainforest of the Northwest Coast - leads to a prophetic vision of an analog revolution already under way. We are, Dyson reveals, on the cusp of a new moment in human history, driven by a generation of machines whose powers are beyond programmable control. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Technology and state -- United States -- History.
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Science and state -- United States -- History.
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Technological forecasting.
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Electronic digital computers -- Philosophy.
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Corren, Donald, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781980096016 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1980096015 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13496232 |
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