Adm Grace Hopper is of the heroes of early computing. In addition to making fundamental contributions to software, she was one of the few who started to realize what technological change impacted people. Recently some of the security folks - notably Bruce Schneier and Steve Bellovin - learned about a general talk she gave at the NSA in 1982. They hounded the NSA to declassify and publish the talks and here they are! They give a sense of what the world was like then and you can sense her brilliance. This was a year before ARPANET cutover to TCP/IP, which many consider the real start of the Internet (although it goes back 13 years earlier in one form or another). Perhaps there's something you can take away.
Side story: About 12 years ago I found myself spitting into the wind trying to deal with climate deniers who lacked a technical background. One of her papers gave a good description of what we now call sealioning. It was a good enough argument to convince me to move on and try other channels. She also wrote about dealing with people like Trump who use bullshit asymmetry - what is known as Brandolini's law these days. A very wise woman indeed!
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