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George Dyson

American Historian

Born: 1953

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The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good. George Dyson

Good Unlimited Generally Information Public Public Good

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

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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

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

Facebook Sometimes Read Around Report Wander

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

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

I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school. George Dyson

School Everyone High Hated High School Adolescent Rebellious

It doesn't cost anything to replicate code. So the companies that make code, that's why they've done so well. We take it for granted now, but why is it that code is free? It's because somebody built this self-replicating process. George Dyson

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