George B. Dyson
Author of Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
About the Author
George Dyson, the son of distinguished physicist Freeman Dyson, grew up immersed in the world of groundbreaking science. His previous books include the acclaimed Darwin Among the Machines. He lives in Washington.
Image credit: George, Freeman and Esther Dyson speak at the Long Now Foundation. By ioerror - Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71882713
Works by George B. Dyson
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Contributor — 633 copies
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- Other names
- Dyson, George Bernard
- Birthdate
- 1953-03-26
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
Canada - Birthplace
- Ithaca, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Bellingham, Washington, USA
British Columbia, Canada - Occupations
- non-fiction writer
historian of technology
kayak designer and builder - Relationships
- Freeman Dyson (father)
Dyson, Esther (sister)
Dyson, George (1) (grandfather)
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Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship by George Dyson
An account that illustrates the unfortunate directions taken by post-WWII science funded by military contracts and supported by credulous politicians having technological myopia.
It's as if Neal Stephenson wrote a book about AI without knowing what AI stands for. Still, some interesting bits even though I wasn't interested in most of them.
A promising book, in which the level of details about "characters" and events is too detailed for the average reader, causing the book to fail in keeping its promises of constructing an accessible history of the origins of computers. It's more for the connaisseur than for the newbie.
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