El hombre del futuro

An exciting new biography of John von Neumann, the lost genius who invented our world: the smartphones we carry in our pockets today, cybernetic minds, the quirks of game theory, evolutionary biology, self-replicating moon bases and weapons nuclear. They all bear the fingerprints of a remarkable man: John von Neumann. Born in Budapest at the beginning of the last century, John von Neumann is one of the most influential scientists in history. According to his colleagues he had the fastest brain on the planet. He was instrumental in the Manhattan Project and in formulating modern economic theory and the foundations of Cold War and geopolitics. He created the first programmable digital computer. He prophesied the potential of nanotechnology and, from his deathbed, described the limits of the brain and computers, and how to overcome them.