Comments on: Much Ada About Nothing https://www.isegoria.net/2012/10/much-ada-about-nothing/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:10:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: David Foster https://www.isegoria.net/2012/10/much-ada-about-nothing/comment-page-1/#comment-611785 David Foster Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:25:00 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=30301#comment-611785 Ada understood the significance of the Analytical Engine better than did 99.999% of people either of her own era or of the next 75 years or so, and was a good explicator of this significance.

In our time, people with this skill set sometimes make hundreds of millions of dollars as venture capitalists and/or marketeers.

If Xerox PARC had had someone with Ada’s skillset around, in a position with organizational power, the history of the computer industry would have been quite different.

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