When Computers Stopped Being Human

By this point, Babbage was well aware of the work De Prony had done earlier in France, and the great cost De Prony endured with his 100 human computers. In 1823, Babbage secured funding for a larger mechanical computer intended to operate on 20 digit numbers and 6th order differential equations. In his book “The Information”, James Gleick credits Lovelace as being the superior spokesperson above Babbage for the emerging field of computer science:

Babbage would write, “It is the science of calculation—which becomes continually more necessary at each step of our progress, and which must ultimately govern the whole of the application of science to the arts of life.”

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