pbNamed one of iWIREDi's The Best Pop Culture That Got Us Through 2020 pIn iAnalogiai, technology historian George Dyson presents a startling look back at the analog age and life before the digital revolution--and an unsettling vision of what comes next.b pIn 1716, the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz spent eight days taking the cure with Peter the Great at Bad Pyrmont in Saxony, trying to persuade the tsar to launch a voyage of discovery from Russia to America and to adopt digital computing as the foundation for a remaking of life on earth. In two classic books, iDarwin Among the Machines iand iTuring's Cathedrali, George Dyson chronicled the realization of the second of Leibniz's visions. In iAnalogiai, his pathbreaking new book, he brings the story full circle, starting with the Russian American expedition of 1741 and ending with the beyond-digital revolution that will completebrthe transformation of the world. pDyson enlists a startling cast of characters, fr