In the 1950s, IBM mandated the philosopher Jacques Perre to introduce the word “computer” in France. He came up with the idea of using an ancient Latin word: ordinateur. It referred to a quality that the Church Fathers assigned to God – Deus Ordinator – meaning “God Orderer”.
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@harari_yuval, the 21st Century will witness the emergence of a new religion focused on data: “dataism”. The premise is simple: the universe consists of a data stream and that the value of each phenomenon or entity is determined by its contribution to data processing.Show this thread -
By inventing the binary code a few years ago, human beings had certainly not considered that they would become themselves a series of 0s and 1s.
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Almost sounds like the etymology is similar to the second book of the pentateuch deuteronomy
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