Darwin Among the Machines : The Evolution of Global Intelligence (Helix Books) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Darwin Among the Machines : The Evolution of Global Intelligence (Helix Books) Friday, July 31 2009.

• In this astonishing prediction of the World Wide Web's ultimate challenge to human civilization--a globally networked, electronic, sentient being--Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives, work, and ideas of visionaries who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, and the global mind.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Darwin Among the Machines : The Evolution of Global Intelligence (Helix Books) Thursday, July 30 2009.

• Added a contributor: George Dyson: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Darwin Among the Machines : The Evolution of Global Intelligence (Helix Books) Friday, July 17 2009.

• "Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governes the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal," wrote Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) on the first page of his Leviathan; or, The Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, published to great disturbance in 1651.