Comments on: More than anyone else, John von Neumann created the future

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:23:32 +0000

Von Neumann was probably the smartest man that our species ever produced. He also hated Communism, was a total party animal, and converted to Christianity (as noted above) on his deathbed. Seems like there’s a message there…

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:01:07 +0000

Claude Shannon was the Chuck Yeager of tech geeks.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:50:57 +0000

I wrote about the ENIAC project, in which both von Neumann and his wife Klara were deeply involved, here:

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/64972.html

By: Gavin Longmuir

Gavin Longmuir — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:06:24 +0000

Many individuals have contributed to progress in many different ways. There is an argument that the many people who developed the technology for clean water and effective wastewater treatment built the future — without them, the odds were that von Neumann and Einstein and many others would have died from disease in infancy.

One guy who gets even less attention than von Neumann is Claude Shannon, who essentially single-handedly created the discipline of information theory on which modern electronic communications rely. There are not so many good books & articles about Shannon — and it is very tough to understand those essential theories he created.

By: Ezra

Ezra — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 13:54:59 +0000

It was said that even his esteemed peers said of Johnny that he was in a class all by himself. Of another species far superior than mere mortals.

Surprised everyone by becoming a Catholic on his death bed.