A review by tattdcodemonkey
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
2.0
Interesting for the historical research and biographical content for the people involved in building early computers.
But lacking in technical understanding. I found some of the explanations and pontificating on computer architectures and code laughable.
Overall I liked the content, but found the book hard to follow. He is covering a large cast of characters and jumps around giving biographical information for each of them. The effect is the author talks about overlapping time periods through the book, while also jumping backwards and forwards in time depending one who he is focused on at the moment. Which can make the book feel like spaghetti at times.
But lacking in technical understanding. I found some of the explanations and pontificating on computer architectures and code laughable.
Overall I liked the content, but found the book hard to follow. He is covering a large cast of characters and jumps around giving biographical information for each of them. The effect is the author talks about overlapping time periods through the book, while also jumping backwards and forwards in time depending one who he is focused on at the moment. Which can make the book feel like spaghetti at times.