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Woodrow Hartzog will speak on “No Neutral Technologies: A Post-Show Conversation” after the play Ada and the Engine on October 19, 2022. The play will begin at 7:30, with Woodrow speaking directly following at 9:30. This post-show conversation will take a deep dive into the subject matter and themes of Ada and the Engine, in particular the moral culture surrounding technology.
The play is set in 1830. Britain’s Industrial Revolution has dawned. The fiery, brilliant Ada Byron Lovelace, is the author of the first computer program and daughter of Lord Byron (yes, that Lord Byron). At 17 she befriends Charles Babbage, salon host and inventor of the first mechanical computer. What follows is a tempestuous collaboration wherein they envision a future where a “thinking engine” completes complex calculations. Filled with the music of Ada’s imagination, Lauren Gunderson’s (Emilie La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, The Half-Life of Marie Curie) play is what the Cincinnati Enquirer calls “inspiring and absorbing”.
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