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In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines.
-- George Dyson⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeDyson #Evolution #HumanBeings #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota
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In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines.
-- George Dyson⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeDyson #Evolution #HumanBeings #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota
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In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines.
-- George Dyson⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeDyson #Evolution #HumanBeings #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota
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In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines.
-- George Dyson⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeDyson #Evolution #HumanBeings #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota
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In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines.
-- George Dyson⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeDyson #Evolution #HumanBeings #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota
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In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines.
-- George Dyson⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeDyson #Evolution #HumanBeings #Life
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CW: Long thread/13
It reminds me of #GeorgeDyson's brilliant memoir/history of computing, *Turing's Cathedral*, where he describes how he and the other children of the scientists building the first digital computers at the #PrincetonInstitute spent their summers in the basement, hand-winding cores for the early colossi their parents were building on the floors above them:
https://memex.craphound.com/2012/03/12/george-dysons-history-of-the-computer-turings-cathedral/
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"Orchestral Anthems: Elgar | Finzi | Dyson | Howells" by Benjamin Nicholas, Britten Sinfonia, Choir of Merton College, Oxford https://songwhip.com/benjaminnicholas/orchestral-anthems-elgar-finzi-dyson-howells
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This is good, if you're interested in tech history. Describes the ideas, circumstances, and personalities (principally John von Neumann) that gave rise to modern computers. There's a surfeit of detail on peripheral topics, but it's a complex story well told
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