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74. ADVENT 14: ADA LOVELACE

74. ADVENT 14: ADA LOVELACE

Without Ada, would there even be robots?

Fifty Years of Shit Robots · Matt Brown

December 14, 20239m 7sExplicit

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Show Notes

Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today sees the opening of the fourteenth door of our robot advent calendar. And what's inside? It's Ada Loveless, pioneering genius of computer programming and without whom we might well be robot-less.


WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more. 


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NOTES


ADA LOVELACE

https://findingada.com/about/who-was-ada/

 

AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/enlightenment

 

GALVINISM

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-twitching-frog-legs-helped-inspire-frankenstein-180957457/


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