The mechanical dreamers
The birth of symbolic thought
The illusion of empathy
The competitive spark
007skaty Erewhon Machine Evolution
They are evolving! They are evolving! Smash the steam engines down!
007skaty Weave numbers into art to discover how early thinkers saw the creative potential of computers.
007skaty The famous Parisian clockwork duck boasted four hundred moving wing parts but used hidden dyed breadcrumbs to fake digestion.
What did Jacques de Vaucanson's mechanical duck actually excrete instead of digested food in 1738?
In which year did Jacques de Vaucanson present his famous 'Digesting Duck' automaton in Paris?
007skaty The legendary automaton defeated Napoleon Bonaparte decades before real computers could play chess.
Which of these historical figures was defeated in chess by the Mechanical Turk hoax?
Vaucanson's rubber tubes: While building his famous digesting duck in 1738, French engineer Jacques de Vaucanson invented the world's first flexible rubber tube to simulate the duck's intestines.
Whose proposed mechanical computer, the Analytical Engine, did Ada Lovelace write her groundbreaking notes for?
What did Ada Lovelace famously predict the Analytical Engine could compose if given the right rules?
A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations. Ada Lovelace wrote the first such sequence in 1843 for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.
Whose scientific theories heavily influenced Samuel Butler's ideas about machine evolution in 1872?
In which 1872 novel did Samuel Butler warn that machines would evolve consciousness and rule humans?
