Faith and Weapons of Math Destruction
Document Type
Blog
Abstract
“Someone designed the furnaces of the Nazi death camps.” With this sentence, Roger Forsgren opens his article titled “The Architecture of Evil”. Although it was Hitler and his henchmen who unleashed death and destruction during the Second World War, it required railways, factories, warehouses, and machinery to enable the war effort. The article goes on to describe the life and work of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler’s “chief architect,” underscoring that Hitler did not work alone. The truth is that there were engineers who designed the technology that enabled the Nazi brutality. Speer later wrote “my obsessional fixation on production and output statistics, blurred all considerations and feelings of humanity. Speer continues, “An American historian has said of me that I loved machines more than people. He is not wrong.”
Publication Date
1-22-2021
Recommended Citation
Schuurman, Derek, "Faith and Weapons of Math Destruction" (2021). University Faculty Publications and Creative Works. 784.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/calvin_facultypubs/784