
Cyberpunk, Difference Engines and Mad Madge with Bruce Sterling
Interdependence
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The Importance of Being a Woman
Ada was basically a kind of feminine party front. Babbage himself was very much a man about town and extremely witty and rich. He would have these events and he would pull in the bond time of Regency Society. So it was in his interest to make her look good. And it was in her interest for people to take her seriously. But who actually wrote the program for the cards? It could have been her.
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