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Shadowban Syndicate #5: The Occult Origins of Technology

Juan on Juan

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The Impossible Function and Babbage

CNN's John Sutter looks at a letter written by Babbage to his high priestess in 1843. In the letter, she tells him that he is working very hard for her like "the devil" The two were talking about their code and how they could work it out without using human hands or heads. It was almost like some sort of divination; these people were alchemists. They know how to occult.

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