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Book, 2012
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Legendary historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly re-creates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure creative genius that gave us computers, digital television, modern genetics, models of stellar evolution - in other words, computer code. Dyson shows how the crucial advancements that dominated 20th century technology emerged from one computer in one laboratory, where the digital universe as we know it was born. Legendary historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly re-creates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure creative genius that gave us computers, digital television, modern genetics, models of stellar evolution - in other words, computer code. Dyson shows how the crucial advancements that dominated 20th century technology emerged from one computer in one laboratory, where the digital universe as we know it was born.
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