Turing's Cathedral

George Dyson's *Turing's Cathedral* explores the explosive birth of the digital universe. It reveals how John von Neumann and a pioneering team in post-WWII Princeton built one of the first computers, realizing Alan Turing's vision for a universal machine. Within its nascent, 5-kilobyte universe, code emerged that transformed numbers from passive information into active agents. Dyson illuminates this foundational shift and the unsettling, simultaneous development of the digital computer and the hydrogen bomb, tracing how code ultimately took over our world.

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