The first programmable computer, the Zuse Z3, was created in 1939 by a German engineer (Zuse) who was not a Nazi sympathizer; it performed 0.07 calculations per second per dollar, and despite being shown to Hitler and the Nazi party, they saw no military value in computation—a catastrophic miscalculation.
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Ray KurzweilEvidence Quote
“the first point here 1939 it was actually the first programmable computer called the zeusa 2 created in 1939”
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Ray Kurzweil: Does AI Make Immortality Possible?— Center for Natural and Artificial IntelligenceCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:24:21 PM
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