Claire L. Evans created an app, leads the band Yacht and now has written a book about female tech pioneers
Claire L. Evans sang that she "thought the future would be cooler" as frontwoman of the L.A.-based pop band Yacht. In her first book "Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet" the musician, app developer and journalist looks through time the other way, to history - which could be cooler too.
Women have often been left out of the history of technology. "I want them to be recognized for their contributions," she says of female pioneers Ada Lovelace (mathematician), Grace Hopper (computer scientist) Stacy Horn (founder of the early social network Echo) and the many others whose endeavors and accomplishments she traces in her book. Stretching from the early 1800s to the 1990s, "Broad Band"
