12 Bytes av Jeanette Winterson - smakbit

   "At the beginning of the future were two yong womwn: Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace.
   Mary was born in 1797. Ada was born in 1815.
Each of these yong womwn tore their way into history in the early years of the Industrial Revolution. The start of the Machine Age.

Ada wasn't free to go out and build the world. She was the legal property first of her father, and then of her husband. When she married at 19, she spent the next 3 years having 3 children. Babbage's wife did that job for him.

Ada had no social strukture in which to exist as Ada. For some reason, maybe the Byronic blood, she didn't care. She was lucky to have a husband who bored her, but who let her do as she liked - or who didn't notice what she was up to most of the time, and that includen many affairs, and a great deal of money lost on horse racing." (sid 20)

12 Bytes How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next (2021) av Jeanette Winterson, twelve funny and provocative essays drawing on years of research into artificial intelligence ask challenging questions about humanity, art, religion and the way we live and love. With wit, compassion and curiosity, Winterson tackles AI's most interesting talking points, from the algorithms that data-dossier your whole life, to the weirdness of backing up your brain.   Flera smakbitar: HÄR.