George Dyson
George Dyson (US/CA) is a historian and a philosopher of science and the future. The son of physicist Freeman Dyson, George grew up inside one of the most fervid hotbeds of scientific research in the Atomic Age. He spent his early adulthood living in a tree house, and designing and building Aleutian kayaks (chronicled in his book Baidarka: The Kayak, 1986). His 1997 book Darwin Among the Machines made a case for the Internet as a growing organism, an evolving life force. In 2002, he published a story from his extraordinary childhood, Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 1957–1965, about the drive to build a nuclear-powered rocket aimed at Saturn. His forthcoming book Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe is the fruit of years of research into the history and future of computing.