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George B. Dyson

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January 01, 1953

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male

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Science, Outdoors & Nature

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George Dyson is a scientific historian, the son of Freeman Dyson, brother of Esther Dyson, and the grandson of Sir George Dyson. When he was sixteen he went to live in British Columbia in Canada to pursue his interest in kayaking and escape his father's shadow. While there he lived in a treehouse at a height of 30 metres. He is the author of Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 1957-1965 and Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence, in which he expanded upon the premise of Samuel Butler's 1863 article of the same name and suggested coherently that the internet is a living, sentient being. He is the subject of Kenneth Brower's book The Starship and the Canoe. Dyson was the founder of Dyson, Baidarka & Company, a des...more

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Books by George B. Dyson

Average rating: 3.70 · 231 ratings · 57 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship 3.88 avg rating — 84 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe 3.27 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Darwin Among The Machines: The Evolution Of Global Intelligence 3.79 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Baidarka 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1986	My rating: