La catedral de Turing

"It is possible to invent a single machine that can be used to compute any computable sequence", announced a twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing in 1936. In the 1940s and 1950s a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann, met in Princeton, New Jersey, to begin the construction of one of the first computers that would materialize Alan Turing's vision of an universal machine. The codes generated in that embryo of the 5-kilobyte universe (less memory than a single icon on a modern computer screen requires) broke the distinction between numbers that "mean" things and numbers that "do" things, and our universe. changed forever. "La catedral de Turing" is the story of the most constructive invention of the 20th century, the digital computer, of who and how it was created. A historical and prophetic story that tells us how the code managed to conquer the world and ventures to pose the future of the digital universe.