Computer Documentary - English - Narration - Corporate
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British (England - East Anglia, Cambridge, Hertfordshire) British (General)Transcript
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You might have assumed that the computer age began with some geeks out in California or with some code breakers back in World War Two. But the pioneer who first saw the true power of the computer lived way back during the transformative age of the industrial revolution as Queen Victoria takes the throne in the early 19th century, Britain is on the brink of an even more ambitious evolution. The mechanization of thought itself forged from brass and powered by steam, a Victorian computer age, it took extraordinary foresight and yet in this patriarchal world, this visionary wasn't a man but passionate and intelligent lady, Ada Lovelace. Ada had a very privileged background. In fact, she was almost one of Queen Victoria's ladies in waiting Dickens Faraday and the inventor Charles Babbage was some of her close acquaintances. It was a magical, exciting time. Two opposing cultures, science and romanticism were colliding.