Author: Jeff + Claude AI
Genre: Evolution, History, Civilisation, Humanity
Date: 28th September 2026
Description:
Summary
Ch1. Mechanical Ancestors: Automata and the Dream of Self-Moving Machines
Ch2. Wartime Codebreakers: Computing Emerges from Conflict
Ch3. The Dartmouth Summer and Early Symbolic Intelligence
Ch4. Expert Systems, Winters, and the Boom-Bust Cycle
Ch5. Neural Networks Reborn: From Perceptrons to Deep Learning
Ch6. Autonomous Machines Enter the Physical World
Ch7. Language, Generative Models, and the Scaling Hypothesis
Ch8. Governance, Alignment, and the Questions That Remain