«Connecting Babbage’s theories of worker control and his architectures for computation is a unified objective: the discipline of purportedly “free” labor such that it could continue to produce for the British empire. The templates for worker control that shaped Babbage’s contributions to computing draw on technologies created on the plantation, which were already actively applied to control rebellious workers in industrial factories.»

https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/