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NASA Hosts Evolution of Technology Lecture
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – Computers have broken the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things, and as a result our universe will never be the same. Will machines begin to think? Will they begin to reproduce?
With the transition from 'digital once a generation to all digital all the time,' the era of strictly Darwinian evolution is drawing to a close. Scientific historian George Dyson will discuss these trends on Monday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. PDT at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View, Calif.
Sponsored by the Astrobiology Institute at NASA Ames Research Center and Lockheed Martin Corporation, Dyson will reflect on the evolution of technology and whether Charles Darwin still is "among the machines."
This is the latest in a series of Ames-hosted public lectures centered on the concept of evolution. In honor of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species," Ames is looking at the evolution of science and technology, particularly as it contributes to the NASA mission.
WHAT: Free public lecture, "Evolution of Technology: Darwin Among the Machines"
WHEN: 7 p.m. PDT, Monday, Oct. 19, 2009
WHO: Scientific historian George Dyson
WHERE: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View, Calif.
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