Turings cathedral the origins of the digital universe by george dyson turings cathedral is the uninspiring and rather dry book about the origins of the digital universe with a title like turings cathedral i was expecting a riveting account about the heroic acts of alan turing the father of modern computer science and whose work was . Turings cathedral the origins of the digital universe kindle edition by dyson george download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading turings cathedral the origins of the digital universe. A wall street journal best business book of 2012 a kirkus reviews best book of 2012 in this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of world war ii george dyson illuminates the nature of digital computers the lives of those who brought them into existence and how code took over the world in the 1940s and 50s a small group of men and women led by john . Alan turing is said to have prophesied one day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other my little computer said such a funny thing this morning. It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence twenty four year old alan turing announced in 1936 in turings cathedral george dyson focuses on a small group of men and women led by john von neumann at the institute for advanced study in princeton new jersey who built one of the first computers to realize alan turings vision of a