theorywatch

Luciano Floridi writes in his “Against Digital Ontology” (Synthese, 2009): “Konrad Zuse is acknowledged by many as the father of digital ontology.” Zuse apparently also built the first digital computer, in Nazi Germany, even before ENIAC.

Thank heavens I’m untenured. Otherwise I’d feel even more ignorant than I do right now, not having known any of this.