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    The road less paddled

    Nov 13, 2022 3 minutes

    ANALOGIA: The entangled destinies of nature, human beings and machines, by George Dyson (Penguin, $30).

    While still a teenager, George Dyson escaped the US to build a treehouse 30m up a Douglas fir on the edge of an inlet near Vancouver. His room with a view was windy, but a comfortable distance from his estranged father, Freeman Dyson, an acclaimed professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

    “Today, anyone living in a. “The only thing I was trying to save was rent.”

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