The Secret History of the Future: Bug in the System
The Economist Podcasts
The first ever computer program was written in 1843 by Ada Lovelace, a mathematician who hoped her far-sighted treatise on mechanical computers would lead to a glittering scientific career. Today, as we worry that modern systems suffer from โalgorithmic biasโ against some groups of people, what can her program tell us about how software, and the people who make it, can go wrong?
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