Is Code Language?

The Web as our Shared Memory

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace

"˙ʇuɐʇɹodɯᴉ ǝʌoɹd ʎǝɥʇ ɟᴉ uᴉɐƃɐ ɯǝɥʇ puᴉɟ uɐɔ ǝɥ ʇɐɥʇ ǝɔuɐɹnssɐ ǝɯos ɥʇᴉʍ 'puɐɥ ʇɐ ʎlǝʇɐᴉpǝɯɯᴉ ǝʌɐɥ oʇ pǝǝu ʇou sǝop ǝɥ sƃuᴉɥʇ ploɟᴉuɐɯ ǝɥʇ ƃuᴉʇʇǝƃɹoɟ ɟo ǝƃǝlᴉʌᴉɹd ǝɥʇ ǝɹᴉnbɔɐǝɹ uɐɔ ǝɥ ɟᴉ ǝlqɐʎoɾuǝ ǝɹoɯ ǝq ʎɐɯ suoᴉsɹnɔxǝ sᴉH ˙ʎɹoɯǝɯ pǝʇᴉɯᴉl sᴉɥ ƃuᴉxɐʇɹǝʌo ʎq ǝɹǝɥʇ ʎɐʍ ʇɹɐd uʍop pǝƃƃoq ǝɯoɔǝq ʎlǝɹǝɯ ʇou puɐ uoᴉsnlɔuoɔ lɐɔᴉƃol sʇᴉ oʇ ʇuǝɯᴉɹǝdxǝ sᴉɥ ɥsnd oʇ sᴉ ǝɥ ɟᴉ ʎllnɟ ǝɹoɯ spɹoɔǝɹ sᴉɥ ǝzᴉuɐɥɔǝɯ oʇ spǝǝu ǝɥ ʇɐɥʇ xǝldɯoɔ os uoᴉʇɐzᴉlᴉʌᴉɔ ɐ ʇlᴉnq sɐɥ ǝH ˙sɯǝlqoɹd ʇuǝsǝɹd sᴉɥ ʎlǝʌᴉʇɔǝɾqo puɐ ʎlǝʇǝldɯoɔ ǝɹoɯ ǝzʎlɐuɐ puɐ ʇsɐd ʎpɐɥs sᴉɥ ʍǝᴉʌǝɹ ɹǝʇʇǝq uɐɔ ǝɥ ɟᴉ pǝʇɐʌǝlǝ ǝq plnoɥs ʇᴉɹᴉds s,uɐɯ ʎlqɐɯnsǝɹԀ" — Vannevar Bush in As We May Think