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26 September 2020

9:00 AM

26 September 2020

9:00 AM

Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines George Dyson

Allen Lane, pp.304, 25

When reviewers say that some new book reminds them of some famous old book, it often ends up as a blurb on the paperback edition, so I want to be clear: when I say that George Dyson’s Analogia reminds me of Robert Pirsig’s New Age classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, I do not mean it exactly as a compliment.

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