• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Das Kapital described crypto before digital computers were even an idea. His work is still relevant.

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      3 months ago

      I thought to look this up cause I think it’s neat and it’s often the case that some technology is described long before you’d think. The first description of using electrical switches to do logic operations came in 1886 in a letter from Charles Sanders Peirce. That’s between Capital volume 2 and 3, and most importantly, AFTER he described the law of value.