George Dyson started out as a boat builder and designer, and still constructs great sea-going kayaks to Aleutian designs that are thousands of years old. His 1997 book, Darwin Among the Machines, seemed to come out of nowhere. It is a history of computers, written from the machines’ point of view. George’s new book, Project Orion, is stirring public interest in a project whose longest-lasting legacy has been the technology for making small nuclear bombs.
Has your research into Project Orion altered or deepened your relationship with your father?
Not at all. Kenneth Brouwer’s dual biography The Starship and the…
