Tag: george dyson
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The digital revolution progressed through five stages: the repurposing of war-surplus analog vacuum tube components into the first generation of fully-electronic stored-program computers; the era of large central mainframes; the era of… more ›
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The history of computing can be divided into an Old Testament and a New Testament: before and after electronic digital computers and the codes they spawned proliferated across the earth.… more ›
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When old tech dies, it usually stays dead. No one expects rotary phones or adding machines to come crawling back from oblivion. Floppy diskettes, VHS tapes, cathode-ray tubes—they shall rest… more ›
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Computer science has a long history — going back to before there even was computer science — of implementing neural networks, but for the most part these have been simulations of neural… more ›
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Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing are all celebrated as computer pioneers, but the name of John von Neumann, a brilliant Hungarian-American mathematician once nearly as well known in… more ›
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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… more ›
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My perspective is closest to . I liked his introducing himself as being interested in intelligence in the wild. I will copy George in that. That is what I’m interested in,… more ›
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I’m interested not in domesticated AI—the stuff that people are trying to sell. I’m interested in wild AI—AI that evolves in the wild. I’m a naturalist, so that’s the interesting thing to me.… more ›
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The next revolution in computing will be signaled by the rise of analog systems over which digital programming no longer has control. https://onezero.medium.com/the-future-of-computing-is-analog-e758471fbfe1 more ›
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“Why are there no trees in the ocean?” – The Edge Question 2018 – 3 | Edge.org more ›