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[ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: first ]

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Collectible 1st Edition (pbk), 1st printing with 10 full numberline. Excellent condition. Minor marks

Collectible 1st Edition (pbk), 1st printing with 10 full numberline. Excellent condition. Minor marks on a few pages, otherwise pages are nice and clean. Minor shelfwear. Pages are slightly tanned. Free deliver confirmation! Satisfaction guaranteed!

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Trade Paperback in Very Good condition. Binding tight and straight. Pages clean and unmarked.

Trade Paperback in Very Good condition. Binding tight and straight. Pages clean and unmarked.

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Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. Softcover. Ships daily.

Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. Softcover. Ships daily.

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Unread copy of the book with minor shelf wear to cover. No markings of any kind. Spine is uncreased.

Unread copy of the book with minor shelf wear to cover. No markings of any kind. Spine is uncreased.

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8vo-9 in. tall. 286pp. Fine-no dj-paperback.

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Trade Paperback. Fair. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Bottom page edges are damaged. Book is tight with no spine creases.

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286pp. Index, Notes. Wear wraps.

286pp. Index, Notes. Wear wraps.

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8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
xiv, 286 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy.

8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
xiv, 286 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Darwin Among the Machines retraces the steps that led us into the digital wilderness, no less wild for being a universe of our own device. Introducing a cast of known and unknown characters, George B. Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries-from the time of Thomas Hobbes to the time of John von Neumann-who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, and artificial mind. This deep and elegant book derives both its title and its outlook from Samuel Butler's 1863 essay 'Darwin Among the Machines. ' Observing the beginnings of miniaturization, self-reproduction, and telecommunication among machines, Butler predicted that nature's intelligence, only temporarily subservient to technology, would resurface to claim our creations as her own. Updating Butler's arguments, Dyson has distilled the historical record to chronicle the origins of digital telecommunications and the evolution of digital computers, beginning long before the time of Darwin and exploring the limits of Darwinian evolution to suggest what lies beyond. Weaving a cohesive narrative among his brilliant predecessors, Dyson constructs a straightforward, convincing, and occasionally frightening view of the evolution of mind in the global network, on a level transcending our own. Dyson concludes that we are in the midst of an experiment that echoes the prehistory of human intelligence and the origins of life. Just as the exchange of coded molecular instructions brought life as we know it to the early earth's primordial soup, and as language and mind combined to form the culture in which we live, so, in the digital universe, are computer programs and worldwide networks combining to produce an evolutionary theater in which the distinctions between nature and technology are increasingly obscured. Nature, believes Dyson, is on the side of the machines. / George B. Dyson was born in 1953, the year that Nils Barricelli first used John von Neumann's electronic computer at the Institute for Advanced Study, where Dyson spent his childhood, to perform experiments with artificial evolution and artificial life. He has been keeping watch on the relationship between nature and technology ever since."-Publisher.

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Some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include cdrom or access codes, customer service is our top priority!

Some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include cdrom or access codes, customer service is our top priority!

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Book appears unread, but may have a publisher's mark or minor shelf wear. We are the Twin Cities' largest independent book store.

Book appears unread, but may have a publisher's mark or minor shelf wear. We are the Twin Cities' largest independent book store.

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8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.

0738200301.
8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.

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