I don't think I can do it justice. Let me give you ONE example- in the chapter on Optical data networks Mr Dyson begins with Clytaemnestra awaiting the one way signal, via signal fires, from Agamemnon.
All the great minds are here- arranged in a dizzying order. Hobbes, Hooke, Leibniz, Barricelli, Von Neumann, Turing Smee, Darwin (Charles and Erasmus), Butler, , Boole, Boyle, and more more more.
Even with my science and math background I still had to look up a few of the concepts in here, and some of the advanced topics- that relate to the work at the Institute for Advanced Sciences or the code work at Bletchey Park I still don't understand. |
