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Turing's Cathedral
by George Dyson:
“Dyson’s nuanced retelling showed me the tangled history of computing—shaped by politics, war, and human ambition—and challenged my assumptions about tech as purely meritocratic.”
by George Dyson:
“Dyson’s nuanced retelling showed me the tangled history of computing—shaped by politics, war, and human ambition—and challenged my assumptions about tech as purely meritocratic.”
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Three technological revolutions dawned in 1953: thermonuclear weapons, stored-program computers, and the elucidation of how life stores its own instructions as strings of DNA.
George Dyson • Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
The new computer was assigned two problems: how to destroy life as we know it, and how to create life of unknown forms.
George Dyson • Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
In March of 1953 there were 53 kilobytes of high-speed random-access memory on planet Earth.