A More Perfect Human
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The Origins of the Computer Revolution
In the late 1700s and early 1800s, factories started popping up across the world reshaping the nature of work./nCharles Babbage, English mathematician, was touring factories in the context of industrialization and thinking, wow, these factories can tell us something about the human mind because they tell us about how processes can be broken down and what the elementary steps even of thought might be./nThis devaluation of the classes of people and or machines who do this sort of repetitive mechanical broken down labor in service of efficiency and profit maximization in industrialization and early capitalism led to the rise of the proletariat.
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