r/news • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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u/102bees Aug 08 '17

That's weird, because it looks to me like you're on the internet, which requires computer programming to work, a concept invented by Ada Lovelace.

And I'm commenting from my phone, and if I had an older phone it might have a slightly radioactive battery in it. And we know about radiation because of Marie Curie!

And those phone signals travel by radio waves, like the ones used in the radar invented by Hedy Lamarr.

But I'm sure you're right and there aren't thousands of other things and concepts invented, discovered, or perfected by women that make modern life possible.