During Queen Victoria's reign, work was undertaken on a digital computer which promised to revolutionise science. It was designed to be driven by a steam engine.
Thank you. That was very interesting and of course though provoking. Just imagine where we would be technologically today had it been built in a timely manner. What would our society be like.
Thank you. That was very interesting and of course though provoking. Just imagine where we would be technologically today had it been built in a timely manner. What would our society be like.
I have wondered that myself, whether it would have resulted in a better world or not.
Who'd have thought, a British government throwing money at someone making such grandiose claims. Of course it would never happen today!!!
Perhaps what Babbage needed was a good project manager to keep things moving along.
He was an impossible man to get along with! I doubt that would have worked.