George Dyson Bücher

In den 1940er Jahren kam es am Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton zu einer einzigartigen Zusammenarbeit wissenschaftlicher Genies, die als Keimzelle der digitalen Welt gelten kann. Zu ihnen gehörten Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, Kurt Gödel, Alan Turing und John von Neumann. In engem Austausch arbeiteten sie an streng geheimen Projekten, darunter dem Bau der Atombombe und der Entwicklung des Computers, weitgehend finanziert vom US-Militär. Auf der Basis jahrelanger Recherchen erzählt der amerikanische Wissenschaftshistoriker George Dyson erstmals die faszinierende Geschichte dieser Anfänge des digitalen Zeitalters.

Paul Reps' Sammlung von Zen-Texten gehört zu den echten Klassikern des Zen und erfreut sich seit über 30 Jahren einer ungebrochenen Beliebtheit. 500 Jahre Zen-Erfahrung der großen chinesischen und japanischen Meister in einem Band bestehend aus: den 101 Zen-Geschichten, der Koan-Sammlung Mumonkan - Das torlose Tor oder Die torlose Schranke und den 10 Bildern des Ochsen, dem sogenannten Ochsengleichnis über die Stufen des Erwachens. Eine originelle Ergänzung sind die Lehrsprüche aus dem 4000 Jahre alten Sanskrit-Werk Auf die Mitte zu, das in erstaunlicher Weise bereits den Geist des Zen atmet und als Urahn aller späteren Zen-Literatur gelten könnte.

In a world where humans coexist with technologies they no longer control or understand, who holds the future? George Dyson plots a thrilling and unexpected course through 300 years of history and science to reveal the hidden connections that underpin the digital transformation of the current age, ending with a premonition of what might follow. From an eighteenth-century Russian expedition to the furthest reaches of North America, to the mirror signals that heralded the age of digital long-range communications and invention of the vacuum tube, Analogia interweaves historical adventure wit scientific insight in a deeply personal story that frame the pursuit - and cost - of the digital revolution in a captivating new light.

In 'Turing's Cathedral', historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly recreates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure creative genius that gave us computers, television, modern genetics and models of stellar evolution.

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. In 1716, the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz spent eight days taking the cure with Peter the Great at Bad Pyrmont in Saxony, seeking to initiate a digitally-computed takeover of the world. In his classic books, Darwin Among the Machines and Turing’s Cathedral , Dyson chronicled the realization of Leibniz’s dream at the hands of a series of iconoclasts who brought his ideas to life. Now, in his pathbreaking new book, Analogia , he offers a chronicle of people who fought for the other side—the Native American leader Geronimo and physicist Leo Szilard, among them—a series of stories that will change our view not only of the past but also of the future. The convergence of a startling historical archaeology with Dyson’s unusual personal story—set alternately in the rarified world of cutting-edge physics and computer science, in Princeton, and in the rainforest of the Northwest Coast—leads to a prophetic vision of an analog revolution already under way. We are, Dyson reveals, on the cusp of a new moment in human history, driven by a generation of machines whose powers are beyond programmable control. Includes black-and-white illustrations