# Digital Computers May Need to Become Analog to Think by George Dyson > "I suspect that digital computers, too, may eventually start to think, but only by growing up to become analog computers, first." > **— George Dyson**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Analog...The Revolution That Dares Not Speak Its Name](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26150) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by George Dyson; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Continuum|Machine Intelligence Continuum]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Analog Computation|Analog Computation]] - [[wiki/Neuromorphic Computing|Neuromorphic Computing]] - [[wiki/Computational Theory|Computational Theory]] - [[wiki/Computer Architecture|Computer Architecture]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "I suspect that digital computers, too, may eventually start to think, but only by growing up to become analog computers, first." — George Dyson, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-george-dyson-digital-computers-need-become-analog ```