The past several years, I've been conducting some deep and extensive research for my documentary project, Computing: The Human Experience. I've studied almost 1,500 books, read over 10,000 articles and other references, and watched dozens of other documentaries. 
When I began this journey, I started with the premise that the story of computing is the story of humanity.
Even more so now, I know that to be true: we are co-evolving, and irreversibly so.
And in many ways, we have just begun.
Even more so now, I know that to be true: we are co-evolving, and irreversibly so.
And in many ways, we have just begun.
People have asked me "when will this be broadcast?"
And my answer is still "sometime before I die."
And my answer is still "sometime before I die."
The challenge of telling a story so rich as computing is that there are so many compelling stories to tell. I've centered in on 512 people, 256 artifacts, 128 organizations, and 64 concepts that I consider central to the history, the present, and the future of computing...
...and it is around these that I'm weaving a narrative, a story of ambition, invention, creativity, vision, avarice, and serendipity, all powered by a refusal to accept the limits of our bodies and our minds.
In many ways, it is an exploration of what it means to be human in the face of a technology that can amplify us, diminish us, and perhaps even replace us.
Women gave birth to computing.
It came of age during the lamentations of World War II and the Cold War.
Computing matured in the subsequent economic rise and counter-culture shift.
Now, it has woven itself into the very fabric of civilization.
It came of age during the lamentations of World War II and the Cold War.
Computing matured in the subsequent economic rise and counter-culture shift.
Now, it has woven itself into the very fabric of civilization.
(I posted this now, because my research is coming to a close, and my writing in ramping up. Week after next, I plan to hide away for a few days to finish a series grid, in the style of the brilliant @jk_rowling)
