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How paper punch cards enabled the rise of computing, and shaped humanity | SLATE
An 80-by-10 grid punched into a paper card helped drive us out of the Industrial Age and into the Data Age. By Caleb Scharf, June 23, 202112:53 PM From The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life’s Unending Algorithm by Caleb Scharf published on June 15, 2021 by Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin…