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SugarMyChurro -> RE: Steampunk (4/22/2008 11:08:26 PM)
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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou
Isn't this cool?
Way cool.
The extremely important thing that report failed to mention was how computer tech was actually a kind of near miss during the Victorian era thanks to Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. Babbage developed designs for machines that could handle complex calculations but didn't have the patience and focus to make them actually work in real life. Lovelace for her part theorized about the kinds of programs that could be made to run on such machines if they had actually worked.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_engine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
Imagine what technology would be now if computer technology has become accessible 50-100 years earlier.
And we came very close to just that.
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