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Re:A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society? by eternalban on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:00AM (#25999546)
Is the claim here that what Ada Lovelace wrote is original to her and not Charles Babbage? To be specific: is the claim here that Lovelace saw in Babbage's invention something he himself failed to see and anticipate?

[please don't simply downvote. This is a sincere question. Do we know the answer?]

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Re:A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society? by Digit-Al on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @08:26AM (#26000676)
Yes, we do know the answer. We have many letters written by them.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34243042

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Re:A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society? by eternalban on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @10:00AM (#26001676)
Thanks!
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