James Burke Connections, Ep. 4 "Faith in Numbers"
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中文导读
James Burke 经典纪录片《Connections》第四集。影片梳理了商业发展、气候变化与黑死病如何催生文艺复兴，并顺着水力动力、活字印刷、Jacquard loom 提花织机直到 Hollerith 打孔卡，一步步推导出现代计算机的雏形。
为什么 HN 推它
HN 工程师强烈安利的科技史佳作，把纺织机、打孔卡如何演变为现代计算技术的历史脉络串讲得极其透彻。
「每个计算机工程师、计算机科学家和软件开发者都该好好了解一下 Jacquard 提花机。」HN 网友原话：Every computer engineer, computer scientist and software developer should learn about the Jacquard loom
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
Episode 4 of James Burke's Connections series, tracing how commercialism, climate change and the Black Death shaped the move to the Renaissance. It follows threads through waterpower, the printing press, the Jacquard loom and the Hollerith punch card toward modern computing.
HN commenters strongly recommend it for its account of how the Jacquard loom and punch cards led to computers.
HN 上的提及
My favorite is this one about proto-computers that came about due to the Black Death
Every computer engineer, computer scientist and software developer should learn about the Jacquard loom
the amazing documentary, Connections.
the whole video is worth watching
though the entire series is worth watching all the same