From the Abacus to ChatGPT: Short Stories of Long Progress

Speed, mistakes, and stubbornness – this is how technologies are created.
Technologies do not fall from the sky. They emerge from stubborn ideas and bold experiments – from the counting board and Fibonacci's "Book of the Abacus", from punch cards, automatons, and Babbage's machines. This book is a collection of short stories in a telegram format: they are convenient to read on the go, opening at any place. You will see how the Jacquard loom became a metaphor for programming, why Luddites always lose to progress and how the optical telegraph gave rise to the first quote hackers. Each chapter is a ready insight for managers and developers: what really accelerates the adoption of innovations, where the bottlenecks are hiding, and why the next hype actually repeats old plots. Concisely, intelligently, with love for the dreamers-mercenaries who move the world.