February 25, 2015
Chapter 4. To Throw the Powers of Thought into Wheel-Work

Her exposition took the form of notes lettered A through G, extending to nearly three times the length of Menabrea’s essay. They offered a vision of the future more general and more prescient than any expressed by Babbage himself. How general? The engine did not just calculate; it performed operations, she said, defining an operation as “any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things,” and declaring: “This is the most general definition, and would include all subjects in the universe.”

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Gleick, James. “The Information.” Pantheon, 2011-02-28T15:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
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