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Ada Lovelace: First Programmer or Harbinger of Doom?

Perhaps it is a purposefully shocking title, but I propose Ada Lovelace’s contribution to the human condition helped us on our way to a doomed end filled with strife, woe, and run-on sentences. Think about it. Beyond simple tools (technology unto themselves) such as the Hammer or Spork™ what has technology really done for us? [...]

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