The Forgotten Einstein
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Game Theory and the Cold War
He invented the term singularity, and used it for the first time to mean this point at which technological progress just disappears into a point unimaginable. He was relaxed about the galloping speed and processing power of computers and how they wouldn't eventually rise up and destroy humans. But he was deeply worried by the fast pace of technology and by the bombs that he was helping to bring into being. His last essays were titled can we survive technology? And his conclusion was that he didn't know, and we would have to bring our invent ness and a moral sense to it. If you fancied doing us a favour, i here at history would be incredibly grateful if you would go and wherever you
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