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If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.

~George Dyson

Topics: Alone Get Living Spend Things Time Very Wilderness You

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Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time. Digital codes are strings of binary digits - bits.

~George Dyson

Topics: Alive Any Binary Bits Book Code Codes Digital Evolve More Necessarily Organisms Over Phone Replicate Strings Than Time While

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When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn't life, any more than replication of nucleotide sequences is, but we know that it sometimes leads to life.

~George Dyson

Topics: Any Click Code Know Leads Life Link Links More Sometimes String Than You

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Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of five trillion bits per second in storage and two trillion transistors per second on the processing side.

~George Dyson

Topics: Bits Checked Digital Expanding Five Last Last Time Per Processing Rate Second Side Storage Time Trillion Two Universe

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The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good.

~George Dyson

Topics: Generally Good Information Public Public Good Unlimited

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We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast.

~George Dyson

Topics: Construct Could Fast Google Intelligent Kind Machine More Possible Scales Than Thing Understand

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I have had a Twitter account since the very beginning but have never used it: I haven't tweeted anything, and I haven't followed anyone.

~George Dyson

Topics: Account Anyone Anything Beginning Followed Had Never Since Twitter Used Very

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I read the Drudge Report! And wander around Facebook sometimes!

~George Dyson

Topics: Around Facebook Read Report Sometimes Wander

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I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably voicing that view on a Web site somewhere. Third-world villagers without electricity have cellphones.

~George Dyson

Topics: Digital Electricity Even Immersed Know People Person Single Single Person Site Somewhere Strongly Universe View Web Web Site Who Without

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Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal.

~George Dyson

Topics: Grow Grow Up Normal Think Up Wherever You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

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