Ada Lovelace

But that is a pretty familiar story, if you think about it.

From Ada Lovelace to Zelda Fitzgerald, from Alma Mahler to Marsha Lucas, and let's not forget Dorothy, Mrs. Luther Cressman, right? Dorothy Locke? History is full of great women who are remembered more for who they married than what they accomplished.

So, you know, what's sauce for the goose is always sauce for the gander, am I right? Well, that's all I've got on this one.

Key sources included Luther Cressman, Quest for First Peoples, an episode of Oregon Experience produced by Cammie Horton and first aired in 2014.

She's increasingly known.

No Ada Lovelace.

The point is the quiet ones.

So let's pin down what we mean by a quiet technology before we start naming names.

And the roots go deeper than most people realize.

He points to Ada Lovelace and Suzanne Langer, who used the concept of a virtual world long before modern headsets existed.

But here's where it gets really interesting.

Lanier says the most important promise of VR isn't just seeing a different place.

I don't know which publisher did them.

Which is about kind of, I can't remember the name of the series, but there were sort of feminist heroes for young girls, you know what I mean? So you obviously, you've got, what's her name? Ada Lovelace, the woman who pioneered the computer.

Yeah.

You know, you've got the woman Penicillin.

And because she kind of posited this philosophy above all else, She was able to unite those groups within her school and become this very influential teacher who brought together scholars from lots of different backgrounds.

So there are so many famous names in it, people like Ada Lovelace, who we'll be familiar with.

But there are also some astonishing recoveries in the book.

For example, the story of Eunice Foote and her discoveries when it comes to experiments with gases and carbon dioxide and things that we would now associate as being so crucial to the climate movement.

So maybe I can read it when I'm back for the holidays.

But I think that's really cool, too, because I think there's probably some cybernetic... aspects and i mean it's a really interesting story we have you know byron's daughter ada lovelace and her mother doesn't want her to have anything to do with byron so she becomes this amazing kind of early kind of computer scientist and helps to develop this uh analytic engine which doesn't really come to pass but i mean it's it sets the the blueprints for kind of uh the the first computer which is amazing too so yeah i'd be really interested in reading that as well And that's all true.

I mean, that's not a novel.

It sounds like a novel,