How a Calculator Ate the World

Computers began as people doing calculations by hand. Then they became machines — and eventually the infrastructure behind almost everything we do. From Babbage and Lovelace to Turing, microprocessors, the web, smartphones and behavioral data, this is how a calculator slowly ate the world. 00:00 Human Computers 00:51 Babbage’s Machine 02:18 Lovelace’s Insight 03:27 Logic Becomes Hardware 04:04 The Universal Machine 04:44 War Accelerates Computing 06:01 Software & Silicon 08:20 The Personal Computer 10:13 From ARPANET to the Web 11:38 The Computer Absorbs Everything 12:34 From Desk to Pocket 14:00 When You Become the Data 15:57 How the Calculator Ate the World 17:42 The Final Irony #computerhistory #techhistory #technology #historyofcomputers #digitalage #internethistory #science #documentary