Darwin Among The Machines: The Evolution Of Global Intelligence

by George B. Dyson

Overview

In this astonishing prediction of the World Wide Web's ultimate challenge to human civilization--a globally networked, electronic, sentient being--Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives, work, and ideas of visionaries who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, and the global mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738200309
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	10/28/1998
Series:	Helix Bks.
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

George Dyson is a historian of technology and the author of Turing’s Cathedral, Baidarka, and Project Orion. He lives in Washington State.

Table of Contents

1. Leviathan
2. Darwin Among the Machines
3. The General Wind
4. On Computable Numbers
5. The Proving Ground
6. Rats in a Cathedral
7. Symbiogenesis
8. On Distributed Communications
9. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
10. There’s Plenty of Room at the Top
11. Last and First Men
12. Fiddling While Rome Burns

Editorial Reviews

Nature
“An extraordinarily exciting, intriguing and very idiosyncratic book.... An almost perfect example of the effective literary treatment of scientific subjects.”

Los Angeles Times
“An original, creative work of intellectual history.”
 
Newsweek
“A cogent, succinct history of thinkers and thinking that paved the way, occasionally unwittingly, to today's technology.”

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