1953: The Year That Revolutionized Life, Death, and the Digital Bit - George Dyson - Technology - The Atlantic
Podcast interview "Science historian George Dyson on the birth of the digital age" @ OnPoint Radio
Apparently computers are born out of war necessity.
Beyond interesting historical points, the interview has observations about
digital vs. analog computing, and role of humans in global computer network.
Essentially, tanks to web links and "social networks",
those links serve as real time analog computing,
complementing ever increasing computing power of digital computers.
There is also a point about computers producing another computers on ever increasing rate.
That was one of goals for Turing, who sparked this revolution, to make self-improving machines,
to be able to faster crack Nazi submarines code before they sunk British ships...
video @ wired.co.uk
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