Try this:
But even if you don’t think aliens or interdimensional entities had anything to do with the creation of the transistor and other breakthroughs, you can’t discount the fact that UFOs, cults, remote viewing, and other emanations of High Weirdness were an integral, inseparable part of Silicon Valley’s glory days, when everything we now take for granted was created out of whole cloth.
So what does this mean?
Let’s start with our new lord and master, the almighty Algorithm. Where does this term come from?
Why do I say this with such certainty?
“Millionaires don’t obsess to the point of madness over UFOs, secret societies, and occult symbolism, but billionaires do.”You see, it occurred to me that so many people out there still have no idea how weird today’s Titans of Industry really are, or how the technology that rules our lives owes just as much to the occult as it does to math or science. Actually, much more so.
“Also, millionaires.”
But even if you don’t think aliens or interdimensional entities had anything to do with the creation of the transistor and other breakthroughs, you can’t discount the fact that UFOs, cults, remote viewing, and other emanations of High Weirdness were an integral, inseparable part of Silicon Valley’s glory days, when everything we now take for granted was created out of whole cloth.
So what does this mean?
Let’s start with our new lord and master, the almighty Algorithm. Where does this term come from?
The word ‘algorithm’ has its roots in Latinizing the nisba, indicating his geographic origin, of the name of Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi to algorismus. Al-Khwārizmī (c. 780–850) was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, whose name means ‘the native of Khwarazm’, a region that was part of Greater Iran and is now in Uzbekistan.OK, that’s all a bunch of lies. Not on Wikipedia’s part, but almost certainly on the translator’s part or whomever came along and changed “Al-Khwarizmi” to Algorithm.
About 825, al-Khwarizmi wrote an Arabic language treatise on the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, which was translated into Latin during the 12th century. The manuscript starts with the phrase Dixit Algorizmi (’Thus spake Al-Khwarizmi’), where “Algorizmi” was the translator’s Latinization of Al-Khwarizmi’s name. Al-Khwarizmi was the most widely read mathematician in Europe in the late Middle Ages, primarily through another of his books, the Algebra.
Why do I say this with such certainty?
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