Herman Hollerith / 赫尔曼·霍尔瑞斯

Herman Hollerith / 赫尔曼·霍尔瑞斯 appears in 133. IBM与纳粹：为什么普通人不应赞美鸡贼主义 as the inventor whose punched-card tabulation system made large-scale population statistics dramatically faster before electronic computers. The episode uses his census work to explain why [[PunchedCardAdministration|punched-card administration]] was attractive to states that needed to sort people, property, labor, and transport at scale.

The source does not portray Hollerith’s invention as intrinsically evil. Its point is historical afterlife: a useful statistical technology became morally dangerous when IBM, [[Dehomag|德霍梅格]], and [[NaziGermany|Nazi Germany]] connected classification capacity to racial law, deportation logistics, forced labor, and camp administration.

Connections

• IBM - company lineage that grew out of Hollerith’s tabulating-machine business.
• Punched Card Administration / 打孔卡行政 - technology and administrative practice associated with his invention in the source.
• Data-Enabled Persecution / 数据化迫害 - later political use case the episode derives from the same information-processing capability.
• [[ThomasJWatson|Thomas J. Watson / 托马斯·沃森]] - later executive who expanded the business system.