Technology

While reading When Cyberfeminism meets Chinese Philosophy: Computer, Weaving and Women by Amy Kit-sze Chan, I feel like Chan is focusing on feminism and how “feminine” jobs changed the world. Chan goes on with facts that explain how a woman, in a time period where the women stayed home to take care of the family, came up with the idea of binary code from the weaving loop, which is considered women’s work. You never hear that in history books huh. I always find it funny when history books leave important facts out about modern history.

But it is also interesting, that Ada Lovelace could see a future technology in Charles Babbage’s machine, the Analytical Engine. In a time that not many women are in the field of Technology and especially in IT, it would be good to have a better update on Ada Lovelace in history classes to help encourage and create a positive reinforcement to help get women in that field.

I also thought the use of Tao and how it relates to the basic technology information. It seemed like the some of the views can be transfer over and have relate to technology. Such as the quote, “Tao gave birth to the One; the One gave birth to two; Two gave birth to Three; Form Three were births of Ten Thousand Beings” (220). It seems that it really interesting that a belief that was created hundreds of years ago relates to modern technology.