March 19th, 2012

Keen On… George Dyson: How The Builders Of Our Digital Universe Made A Deal With The Devil [TCTV]

The technology book of 2012 may have just been published. The book is by George Dyson, it’s called Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe and its a sparkling history of the small team of scientists at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) who developed both the personal computer and the hydrogen bomb. Most of all, this is a book about John (Johnny) Von Neumann, the… → Read More