One of my favorite random pieces of history: Lord Byron penned an (admittedly well-written) full-throated defense of Luddites, and was one of the most popular people to advocate destroying machines and slowing tech. http://www.luddites200.org.uk/LordByronspeech.html … Then he gave birth to Ada Lovelace.
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What we do know is that Lord Byron abandoned the family pretty early, and Lady Byron, who was such a math wiz she was known as “the princess of parallelograms” trained Ada heavily in mathematics, partially in hopes that this would help her avoid the flaws her father had.
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She would have had no sympathy with dad’s view on machines . She was close to Babbage who wrote a marvellous pamphlet on th need to automate manufacuring. It was the basis for much of Turner’s scientific management .
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