By the 1990s, the story shifted from what the machine could do to what the machine could connect . The turned isolated boxes into a global nervous system. Soon, the desktop gave way to the laptop, and the laptop gave way to the smartphone —a device in your pocket with more power than all of NASA possessed during the moon landing. The Invisible Era

For centuries, "computers" were people—mostly women—who spent their lives performing grueling manual calculations for navigation and astronomy. In the 1830s, grew frustrated with the errors in these human-made tables. He envisioned the Analytical Engine , a massive brass-and-iron machine that could be programmed with punched cards. His collaborator, Ada Lovelace , saw further than he did; she realized that if a machine could manipulate numbers, it could manipulate anything —music, art, or logic. She became the world’s first programmer, though her code wouldn't run for another hundred years. The War for Information

The story of computing isn't a tale of silicon and screens, but a centuries-long quest to outsource the labor of thought. It begins not in a lab, but in the dirt, where ancient merchants moved pebbles across an to track what the human mind would inevitably forget. The Gears of Logic