"the cult goddess of cyber-feminism"
Just read in The(ever informative)New Yorker(Mar.5) that the programming language used by the Dept. of Defense is named Ada, after a woman who is considered to have produced the 1st specimen of what would later be called computer programming.And would you believe that woman was Ada Byron, daughter of Lord Byron, also known as the Enchantress of Numbers? Strange but true and apparently was as much of a hellion as her father.She was credited with inventing binary arithmatic, and was made into "the cult goddess of cyber-feminism."(Pg. 88-their words) And wasn't it Hedi Lamar, that 1940's screen goddess who developed and patented a radar network that is now integral in the military's computer network? They didn't even use her ideas for twenty years, during the Cuban missile crisis. I think she got the idea while at a piano recital, the syncopation of the piano triggered her Gestalt moment.I bet neither of them intended their ideas to end up where they were applied,though.Bet you $20. Let's have a seance and ask them.