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Analogia : the emergence of technology beyond programmable control / George Dyson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dyson, George, 1953- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology and state--United States--History.
- Technology and state.
- Electronic digital computers.
- Philosophy.
- United States.
- History.
- Science and state--United States--History.
- Science and state.
- Technological forecasting.
- Electronic digital computers--Philosophy.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2020]
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Leibniz archipelago
- Last of the Apaches
- Age of reptiles
- Voice of the dolphins
- Tree house
- String theory
- Erewhon revisited
- No time is there
- Continuum hypothesis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374104863
- 0374104867
- OCLC:
- 1119767742
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