history

Babbage's Dancer
the impresarios of mechanism

Babbage's Intelligence
calculating engines and the factory system

Cultural Babbage
book review of Cultural Babbage: Technology, Time and Invention edited by Francis Spufford and Jenny Uglow

OK Computer
judgements that machines are intelligent have involved techniques for measuring brains' outputs: the work of Alan Turing

Media Freedom
the contradictions of communications

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