Freeman Dyson Quotes About Computers

• ...los modelos informáticos son muy buenos para resolver ecuaciones de dinámica de fluidos, pero muy malos para describir el mundo real. El mundo real está lleno de cosas como nubes y vegetación y suelo y polvo que los modelos describen muy mal.

  Freeman Dyson

  Real, Polvo, Nubes

• The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.

  Freeman Dyson

  Country, Science, Technology

  "Infinite in All Directions: Gifford lectures given at Aberdeen" by Freeman Dyson, (p. 270), 2004.

• Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

  Freeman Dyson

  Dubious, Climate, Input

• Predeciremos todos los procesos estables. Controlaremos todos los procesos inestables. Describe la aspiración de John von Neumann a la aplicación de ordenadores suficientemente grandes para resolver los problemas de la meteorología, a pesar de la sensibilidad del tiempo a pequeñas perturbaciones.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Weather, Meteorology

• The brain, being analog, is able to grasp images so much better. The brain is just designed for comparing images and some patterns - patterns in space and patterns in time - which we do amazingly well. Computers can do it, too, but not in anything like the same kind of flexibility.

  Freeman Dyson

  Space, Brain, Patterns

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, uk.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

• I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.

  Freeman Dyson

  Path, Becoming, Computer

  Freeman Dyson (2015). “Dreams of Earth and Sky”, p.2, New York Review of Books

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