![]() ![]() To say nothing of database poets, desktop thespians, cyber-ingenues, glass ceiling-shattering entrepreneurs, and the self-proclaimed “biggest bitch in Silicon Alley.”Įvans shines a light on these bright minds whom history forgot, showing us how women have always pushed technology forward and will continue to shape our world in powerful ways that we can no longer ignore. Stacy Horn ran one of the Internet’s earliest social networks, Echo, out of her Greenwich Village apartment in New York City. ![]() Grace Hopper, a navy admiral and mathematician created machine-independent programming languages. Join the ranks of women who have pioneered technology, like Ada Lovelace, the tortured, imaginative daughter of Lord Byron, who wrote the first program for a mechanical computer. Evans to elaborating on the themes presented in her book Broadband: The Untold. These innovators, concentrating where computers have made our lives better, richer, and more connected, are the unsung heroes of network culture. We're joined by American singer, writer and artist, Claire L. 4 With a popular science and culture blog titled Universe, hosted by National Geographic s Scienceblogs network, 5 her essay for Universe 'Moon Art: Fallen Astronaut' was anthologized in The Best Science Writing Online 2012. ![]() VICE futures editor and lead singer of the band YACHT Claire Evans presents the first social history of women and the internet. In addition, Evans is a journalist and author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. ![]() Before Steve Jobs put a personal computer in your hands before Larry Page and Sergey Brin put any answer at your fingertips before Mark Zuckerberg connected you to your long-lost friends, female visionaries were at the vanguard of the technology you love (and love to hate). ![]()
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