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In Turing’s Cathedral: the origins of the digital universe, science historian George Dyson exposes a little known precursor to your PC
SECRECY and computers have always been intertwined. Developed during the fraught years of the second world war, details of the efforts to build Colossus, the British machine that helped decrypt Nazi messages, were kept close to the chests of the Allies.
In Turing’s Cathedral, science historian George Dyson shines light on the critical period when…
