George Dyson

George Dyson, Scientific Historian and Author

Latest work on edge.org: The Universal Library. Born in Ithaca, New York in 1953 George Dyson is a scientific historian and lives in Bellingham, WA. He left home at age 16, moving to British Columbia to build canoes, explore the Northwest Coast, and make his home in a treehouse at a height of 95 feet. Author of: Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 1957-1965, and is the subject of Kenneth Brower's book The Starship and the Canoe. Other works: • "Darwin Among the Machines" (1998) • "Baidarka the Kayak" (1986)

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