Von Neumann and the Institute For Advanced Study

Posted: June 3, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: cybernetics, hardware, history, math, military, science, video | Comments Off

I’ve started reading George Dyson’s “Turing’s Cathedral”, and really enjoying it – I love reading the historical context of technological progress, feels like a lot of sociological reading, filling in another of the endless jigsaw pieces of a larger all-encompassing narrative.

Here’s George Dyson doing a lecture on the material in the book :

The Information

Posted: March 14, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: cybernetics, history, ideas, internet, military, networking, people, programming, science, video | Comments Off

I started reading James Gleick’s “The Information” last week and haven’t been able to put it down yet – so good!
I just found this video of a talk he presented at Google last year on the book, looks ace, i’ll save it for watching this evening.

secret military history of Silicon Valley

Posted: June 29, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: history, military, video | Leave a comment »

This video ties in so well with a lot of other recent histories – from Adam Curtis’ “All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grave” to the Ken Holling’s book I’m in the middle of reading – “Welcome To Mars”.

Video found via Boing Boing