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The Future of Innovation 💫

Play as audio: Coming soon.... I love reading. Recently, I read a book called ' Zero To One ' and in  fact, that is what inspired me to write this article. So, I would love the opening paragraph to be from the same. ' 30 years from now, will there be anything left for people to do ?  “Software is eating the world,” venture capitalist Marc has  announced with a tone of inevitability . VC Andy Kessler sounds  almost gleeful when he explains that the best way to  create productivity is “ to get rid of people .” Forbes captured a  more anxious attitude when it asked readers: Will a machine  replace you? But that premise is wrong: computers are  complements for humans, not substitutes . The most valuable  businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs  who seek to empower people rather than try to make them  obsolete. ' The future of aided creativity is likely to be a combination of machine and human creativity working t...

The First Computer Programmer

Play as audio: Here's a lesser known fact I wished to share with you and what better day than today. Why? Read on to find out. Have you ever thought about the first programmer ever ? Ada Lovelace was born to the renowned poet Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke Byron . Their marriage didn't last long and Ada parted from her father at a very young age. To get rid of the 'fatal' mental tendencies of Ada's father, her mother emphasized arts like music, French, and the cognitive study of mathematics  on Ada. The last one fascinated the young girl. I n 1833 , Ada met the mathematician Chalres Babbage . Yes, the Charles Babbage who is considered "father of the computer" . He had deveoloped a design for a machine with similar functions to a calculator and named it the 'Difference Engine'. Ada was motivated and felt very inspired with this revolutionary machine. She became Babbage's friend for life. He had an ideation of a new project, a much more com...