Reading Paths
Paths
Five routes through the map. They do not try to cover everything: each uses a chain of topics to show how a technology became infrastructure.
From Logic to Machines
A road from Aristotle to Turing: how people wrote reasoning down as formal rules, and then discovered the limits of those rules.
From Transistor to Cloud
How computing went from vacuum tubes in one room to data centres around the world — hardware, abstraction and scale in three movements.
From ARPANET to the Web
How a group of people trying to connect computers accidentally built the infrastructure modern society runs on.
From Perceptron to LLM
Two winters and three waves: seventy years of machine learning as one long experiment in representation, data and compute.
From Code to Software
When a program grows from one person’s draft into infrastructure for millions, how does engineering answer scale, time and people?
Build your own
Build Your Own
There is no single route. Start anywhere, follow the links, and pick a direction when the path forks.