If I were writing on the history of this topic, I would start 80 years earlier with Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace - Babbage saw his general-purpose computer

If I were writing on the history of this topic, I would start 80 years earlier with Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace - Babbage saw his general-purpose computer as a mathematical equation solver, while Ada Lovelace (who was originally hired to translate his lecture [1]) envisioned the creative use cases that general-purpose computing would eventually have. [1] https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematical-treasure-ada-lovelaces-notes-on-the-analytic-engine https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematic...