Analogia av George Dyson

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<p><b>A <i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i> BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020</b><br><br>How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand?<br><br>George Dyson plots an unexpected course through the past 300 years to reveal the hidden connections that underpin our digital age, ending with a premonition of what lies ahead. <br><br>From an eighteenth-century Russian voyage across the North Pacific, to the mirror signals that heralded the age of digital telecommunications and the invention of the vacuum tube, <i>Analogia</i> interweaves historical adventure with scientific insight in a deeply personal story that frames the pursuit - and cost - of the digital revolution in a captivating new light.</p>