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the story of humanity outsourcing arithmetic, then everything else, to sand we taught to think.
means the evolution of machines that compute, from mechanical gears to silicon chips to whatever's stealing your attention right now.
from starts with abacuses and Babbage's unbuilt Analytical Engine, detours through Ada Lovelace writing the first algorithm for a machine that didn't exist, then explodes with vacuum tubes, transistors, and Moore's Law turning decades into months.
first bugliterally a moth stuck in a relay, 1947
ENIAC weight27 tons, less power than your phone
Lovelace's leapwrote code a century before computers existed
transistor countwent from 1 to 50 billion per chip