Analogia
The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control
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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 philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz spent eight days taking the cure with Peter the Great at Bad Pyrmont in Saxony, seeking to initiate a digitally-computed takeover of the world. In his classic books, Darwin Among the Machines and Turing’s Cathedral, Dyson chronicled the realization of Leibniz’s dream at the hands of a series of iconoclasts who brought his ideas to life. Now, in his pathbreaking new book, Analogia, he offers a chronicle of people who fought for the other side - the Native American leader Geronimo and physicist Leo Szilard, among them - a series of stories that will change our view not only of the past but also of the future.
The convergence of a startling historical archaeology with Dyson’s unusual personal story - set alternately in the rarified world of cutting-edge physics and computer science, in Princeton, and in the rainforest of the Northwest Coast - leads to a prophetic vision of an analog revolution already under way. We are, Dyson reveals, on the cusp of a new moment in human history, driven by a generation of machines whose powers are beyond programmable control.
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Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues profoundly to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. Spanning the ocean's story, from its geological origins to the age of exploration, from World War II battles to today's struggles with pollution and overfishing, Winchester's narrative is epic, intimate, and awe inspiring.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Starts Better Than it Finishes
- De Ray en 12-18-10
De: Simon Winchester
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Beyond the Known
- How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
- De: Andrew Rader
- Narrado por: Andrew Rader
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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For the first time in history, the human species has the technology to destroy itself. But having developed that power, humans are also able to leave Earth and voyage into the vastness of space. After millions of years of evolution, we’ve arrived at the point where we can settle other worlds and begin the process of becoming multi-planetary. How did we get here? What does the future hold for us?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- De Ann Wellington en 11-14-19
De: Andrew Rader
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The Ice at the End of the World
- An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
- De: Jon Gertner
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Jon Gertner
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth’s last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. The history of Greenland’s ice begins with the explorers who arrived here at the turn of the 20th century. Their original goal was to conquer Greenland’s seemingly infinite interior. Yet their efforts eventually gave way to scientists who built lonely encampments out on the ice and began drilling - one mile, two miles down.Their aim was to pull up ice cores that could reveal the deepest mysteries of earth’s past.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Adventure, Science, Advocacy
- De EM Goodkind en 09-08-19
De: Jon Gertner
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The Gulf
- The Making of an American Sea
- De: Jack E. Davis
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 20 h y 45 m
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When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea - bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience - and yet, there has never been a comprehensive history of the Gulf until now. And so, in this rich and original work that explores the Gulf through our human connection with the sea, environmental historian Jack E. Davis finally places this exceptional region into the American mythos in a sweeping history that extends from the Pleistocene age to the 21st century.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Decolonize gulf history
- De Jesse Carr en 05-02-18
De: Jack E. Davis
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Brilliant Beacons
- A History of the American Lighthouse
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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Set against the backdrop of an expanding nation, Brilliant Beacons traces the evolution of America's lighthouse system, highlighting the political, military, and technological battles fought to illuminate the nation's hardscrabble coastlines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book about Lighthouses
- De Anastasia en 04-25-21
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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The Great Quake
- How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
- De: Henry Fountain
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history - the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega - and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating to hear the full story
- De Debby A Davis en 08-18-17
De: Henry Fountain
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A Furious Sky
- The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus's New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Weaving a story of shipwrecks and devastated cities, of heroism and folly, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes and puts us in the middle of the most devastating storms of the past, none worse than the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which killed at least 6,000 people, the highest toll of any natural disaster in American history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good start but went political at the end.
- De thebreeze en 03-24-21
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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Into the Deep
- A Memoir from the Man Who Found Titanic
- De: Robert D. Ballard, Christopher Drew
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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The legendary explorer of the Titanic shares inside stories of danger, suspense, and discovery - plus previously untold stories about his own dyslexia and how it has shaped his life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Study of the Ego
- De Thomas en 06-08-21
De: Robert D. Ballard, y otros
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Sea People
- The Puzzle of Polynesia
- De: Christina Thompson
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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A thrilling, intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Long Lost History
- De Than en 04-19-19
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Conquering the Pacific
- An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
- De: Andrés Reséndez
- Narrado por: Phil Morris
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plotting to break Portugal’s monopoly trade with the fabled Orient, set sail from a hidden Mexican port to cross the Pacific - and then, critically, to attempt the never-before-accomplished return, the vuelta. Four ships set out from Navidad, each one carrying a dream team of navigators. The smallest ship, guided by seaman Lope Martín, a mulatto who had risen through the ranks to become one of the most qualified pilots of the era, soon pulled far ahead and became mysteriously lost from the fleet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must Read, Excellent
- De Amazon Customer en 10-07-22
De: Andrés Reséndez
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In the Waves
- My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine
- De: Rachel Lance
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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On the night of February 17, 1864, the tiny Confederate submarine HL Hunley made its way toward the USS Housatonic just outside Charleston harbor. Within a matter of hours, the Union ship’s stern was blown open in a spray of wood planks. The explosion sank the ship, killing many of its crew. And the submarine, the first ever to be successful in combat, disappeared without a trace. For 131 years the eight-man crew of the HL Hunley lay in their watery graves, undiscovered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful scientific dive!
- De Stephen en 05-01-20
De: Rachel Lance
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The Dream of the Iron Dragon
- An Alternate History Viking Epic (Saga of the Iron Dragon, Book 1)
- De: Robert Kroese
- Narrado por: J. D. Ledford
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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In the 23rd century, humanity has been hunted to the verge of extinction by an alien race. When an exploratory ship accidentally travels back in time to Viking-age Scandinavia, the human race is given a second chance. Pursued by the power-hungry King Harald, the four surviving crew members join a ragtag band of Vikings as they pillage their way across Europe. To save humanity, they must somehow return to the stars. Thus begins a decades-long effort to teach the Vikings to build a craft capable of reaching space - a ship that will come to be known as the Iron Dragon.
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3 out of 5 stars
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bumbling fools. with incomplete Tech.
- De Jim en 08-25-18
De: Robert Kroese
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How Iceland Changed the World
- The Big History of a Small Island
- De: Egill Bjarnason
- Narrado por: Einar Gunn
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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The history of Iceland began 1,200 years ago, when a frustrated Viking captain and his useless navigator ran aground in the middle of the North Atlantic. Suddenly, the island was no longer just a layover for the Arctic tern. Instead, it became a nation whose diplomats and musicians, sailors and soldiers, volcanoes and flowers, quietly altered the globe forever. How Iceland Changed the World takes readers on a tour of history, showing them how Iceland played a pivotal role in events as diverse as the French Revolution, the Moon Landing, and the foundation of Israel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- De Ian D. Jones en 06-01-21
De: Egill Bjarnason
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
- The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- De: Julian Sancton
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica. But de Gerlache’s plans to be first to the magnetic South Pole would swiftly go awry. After a series of costly setbacks, the commandant faced two bad options: turn back in defeat and spare his men the devastating Antarctic winter, or recklessly chase fame by sailing deeper into the freezing waters.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent story
- De Ginger 3701 en 05-23-21
De: Julian Sancton
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Don't Know Much About Geography: Revised and Updated Edition
- Everything You Need to Know About the World But Never Learned, Revised and Updated
- De: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrado por: Kenneth C. Davis, Joe Ochman, Mark Bramhall, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much About® History, Don't Know Much About the Civil War and Don't Know Much About the Bible, turns his inimitable wit and wide-ranging knowledge to the subject of geography, and proves once and for all that there is a lot more to it than labeling countries on a map. From often amusing perceptions people have had through the ages about the world and the universe to the changing map of today, Davis shows how geography is really a great crossroad of many fields: biology, meteorology, astronomy, history, economics, and even politics.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Errors
- De The Product Owner en 08-29-15
De: Kenneth C. Davis
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Old Man River
- The Mississippi River in North American History
- De: Paul Schneider
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 42
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In Old Man River, Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history - the Mississippi. Some fifteen thousand years ago, the majestic river provided Paleolithic humans with the routes by which early man began to explore the continent's interior. Since then, the river has been the site of historical significance, from the arrival of Spanish and French explorers in the 16th century to the Civil War. George Washington fought his first battle near the river, and Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman both came to President Lincoln's attention after their spectacular victories on the lower Mississippi.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing, inspiring and informative
- De Rodney Curlee en 04-27-23
De: Paul Schneider
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The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island
- De: Scott Dawson
- Narrado por: Tim Getman
- Duración: 4 h y 12 m
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For over 400 years, the mystery of Roanoke’s “Lost Colony” has puzzled historians and spawned conspiracies - until now. Hatteras native and amateur archaeologist Scott Dawson compiles what scholars know about the Lost Colony along with what scholars have found beneath the soil of Hatteras.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unsure of book’s objectivity
- De Kenyetta en 05-12-22
De: Scott Dawson
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Analogia
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- D.R. Walker
- 02-11-21
Fascinating, but a bit disjointed.
The ideas in this book are fascinating, with deep intellectual underpinnings; but it meanders a bit too much. It’s a bit of a stretch to connect the grand ideas to the premise, but there are some very interesting tidbits.
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- Rebecca Wilkins
- 09-27-24
Interesting subjects and interesting history
Great storytelling and a really interesting subject. Don’t let the subtitle scare you, the author leads you gently through several ages to set you up to receive his well made point. I think.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-20-20
just go with it
You may àsk yourself, how did I get here?
George Dyson answers all the questions asked in the Talking Heads song "Once in a lifetime." And more. Lots more.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-23-22
Not about computation and technology, misleading
I thught this book was about AI and history, was more about native americans and trees in British Colombia.
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- Alex Bejan
- 06-10-21
The first 10 and the last 10 minutes are worthy
A total waste of time. Why was this book published is a mystery ti me.
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