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Turing's Cathedral

The Origins of the Digital Universe

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Turing's Cathedral

Von: George Dyson
Gesprochen von: Arthur Morey
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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.

In the 1940s and '50s, a group of eccentric geniuses - led by John von Neumann - gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their joint project was the realization of the theoretical universal machine, an idea that had been put forth by mathematician Alan Turing. This group of brilliant engineers worked in isolation, almost entirely independent from industry and the traditional academic community. But because they relied exclusively on government funding, the government wanted its share of the results: the computer that they built also led directly to the hydrogen bomb. George Dyson has uncovered a wealth of new material about this project, and in bringing the story of these men and women and their ideas to life, he shows how the crucial advancements that dominated twentieth-century technology emerged from one computer in one laboratory, where the digital universe as we know it was born.

©2012 George Dyson (P)2012 Random House Audio Akademiker & Spezialisten Geschichte & Kultur Wissenschaft Wissenschaft & Technik

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“The most powerful technology of the last century was not the atomic bomb, but software - and both were invented by the same folks. Even as they were inventing it, the original geniuses imagined almost everything software has become since. At long last, George Dyson delivers the untold story of software’s creation. It is an amazing tale brilliantly deciphered.” (Kevin Kelly, cofounder of WIRED magazine, author of What Technology Wants)
“It is a joy to read George Dyson’s revelation of the very human story of the invention of the electronic computer, which he tells with wit, authority, and insight. Read Turing’s Cathedral as both the origin story of our digital universe and as a perceptive glimpse into its future.” (W. Daniel Hillis, inventor of The Connection Machine, author of The Pattern on the Stone)
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One must imagine that these men and women built the foundations of our modern life, society, stories and imagination by thinking about problems that weren't partly recognized as such. Mister Turing still leaves me struck by awe feom the ideas he set loose to the world.

It is also a reminder that modern siciety wasn't built for the benefit of the many but by the greed and warlust oft the few. Without the development of the nuclear bomb, would we have a digital culture and society, the internet and free access to humankinds knowledge?

I doubt it.

Struck by awe

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Story about an exceptional assembly of exceptional men (and women) that shaped history by an incredible set of innovation. The idols of my youth united in a story of which I never knew that it was so thightly interwoven. Interesting to see that Hitler sew the seeds of its own destruction by expelling these brilliant men from Europe and giving them a common ground for their cooperation.

The story only gets 4 stars due to its sometimes too romantisized perception and the absence of moral reflection of the terrible effects of some of the inventions.

When innovation was produced in an assembly line

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