Computers Quote by George Dyson

““Are we using digital computers to sequence, store, and better replicate our own genetic code, thereby optimizing human beings, or are digital computers optimizing our genetic code—and our way of thinking—so that we can better assist in replicating them?””

George Dyson

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It doesn't cost anything to replicate code. So the companies that make code, that's why they've done so well. We take it for granted…

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I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably voicing that…

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If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.

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“There is reason to suspect that our predilection for linear codes, which have a simple, almost temporal sequence, is chiefly a literary habit, corresponding…

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We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales…

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When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn't life, any…

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“There are two kinds of creation myths: those where life arises out of the mud, and those where life falls from the sky. In…

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Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time. Digital codes…

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I have had a Twitter account since the very beginning but have never used it: I haven't tweeted anything, and I haven't followed anyone.

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The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good.

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History is one of the only fields where contributions by amateurs are taken seriously, providing you follow the rules and document your sources. In…

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