Lizard on Nostr: npub1ks70c…teg5u Was going to post precisely that. The capacity to envision that, ...
npub1ks70cf3wt30sn2gqjnw4zjtd7ztwnnaq4fy0azpdvtlthg7eqrpqlteg5u (npub1ks7…eg5u) Was going to post precisely that.
The capacity to envision that, in the 1840s, when all Babbage could imagine is printing tables of logarithms, is hard to comprehend. She understood, a century before it could be done, that anything can be turned into numbers, processed, and then turned back into its original form. That this is so omnipresent today we don't even notice it makes it hard for us to grasp what an incredible insight it was.
The capacity to envision that, in the 1840s, when all Babbage could imagine is printing tables of logarithms, is hard to comprehend. She understood, a century before it could be done, that anything can be turned into numbers, processed, and then turned back into its original form. That this is so omnipresent today we don't even notice it makes it hard for us to grasp what an incredible insight it was.