Darwin Among the Machines

Darwin Among the Machines PDF Author: George Dyson
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0718196953
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Book Description
'Full of historical anecdotes . . . but this is much more than a history book. [George Dyson] weaves his threads together for a purpose. Using voices of the past and present, he describes a fresh and sometimes startling viewpoint of the emerging relationship between nature and machines. From vignettes about Olaf Stapledon, George Boole, John von Neumann, and Samuel Butler, a larger story develops in which the twin processes of intelligence and evolution are inseparably intertwined' Danny Hillis, Wired