A Machine Story
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A history of the machine in 100 minds — from the first mechanical calculators to agentic cowork. The 100-frame architecture is mapped; the English prose is still to be written.
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- SECTION I THE LOGIC BEFORE THE MACHINE
- SECTION II THE ENGINES
- SECTION III TURING & THE WAR
- SECTION IV THE FIRST SUMMER
- SECTION V THE WINTERS
- SECTION VI MACHINES THAT WIN
- SECTION VII THE DEEP LEARNING DECADE
- SECTION VIII THE SCALING ERA
- SECTION IX THE ALIGNMENT QUESTION
- SECTION X THE SECOND WITNESS
SECTION I THE LOGIC BEFORE THE MACHINE
The Syllogism
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The Sea Battle
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The Geometer's Method
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The Antikythera Machine
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SECTION I THE LOGIC BEFORE THE MACHINE
The Man Who Named the Algorithm
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Llull's Wheels
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Reasoning Is Reckoning
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SECTION I THE LOGIC BEFORE THE MACHINE
The Pascaline
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SECTION I THE LOGIC BEFORE THE MACHINE
Leibniz's Dream
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The Laws of Thought
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SECTION II THE ENGINES
The Loom That Read Cards
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SECTION II THE ENGINES
The Difference Engine
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SECTION II THE ENGINES
The Analytical Engine
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SECTION II THE ENGINES
Lovelace's Objection
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SECTION II THE ENGINES
The Engine Unbuilt
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SECTION II THE ENGINES
The Logic Piano
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SECTION II THE ENGINES
Counting a Nation
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SECTION II THE ENGINES
Hilbert's Challenge
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SECTION II THE ENGINES
The Incompleteness
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SECTION III TURING & THE WAR
On Computable Numbers
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SECTION III TURING & THE WAR
The Lambda Calculus
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SECTION III TURING & THE WAR
Bletchley
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SECTION III TURING & THE WAR
Colossus
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SECTION III TURING & THE WAR
A Theory of Information
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SECTION III TURING & THE WAR
The First Draft
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The Women of ENIAC
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The Imitation Game
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The Cybernetic Salon
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The Exit of A. M. Turing
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SECTION IV THE FIRST SUMMER
Dartmouth, 1956
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The Logic Theorist
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The Perceptron
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LISP
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ELIZA
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Shakey
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The Blocks World
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The Twenty-Year Promise
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Perceptrons, the Book
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The Lighthill Report
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The Speech That Met Its Specs
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The Frame Problem
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What Computers Can't Do
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The Fifth Generation
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The Expert Systems
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The LISP Machines
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The Second Frost
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Keepers of the Flame
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SECTION VI MACHINES THAT WIN
Backpropagation
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