The absurdity of technocracy
Babbage Computer Science · 1 comment · 650 words
Punch was a satirical magazine first published in Victorian London. It had a long and noble history of poking fun at... well, just about every fashionable idea of the day. Anyone who pricked the public's conscious probably found themselves lampooned within its pages. Charles Babbage - inventor of the first mechanical computer - found himself starring in a few articles. Here's a scan of one from 1844 (extracted text follows) Returning to the new Houses of Parliament, we must again…
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