What if Victorians had computers ?

Subject: What if Victorians had computers ?
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badapple 14.07.20 - 03:15pm
Imagine if you will a world where the victorians had computers. I have just watched a program about victorian engineering. They showed a flour mill built in 1860, which still has all the original mechanics. in the 160 years its been working every day and has never broken down once, and not one part has needed replacing. They were showing clifton suspension bridge and the sewers in various places and a viaduct built somewhere in yorkshire. It got me thinking, the victorians did all these magnificent engeneering feats without computers or any of our modern technology. What if they had our technology ? how much more could they have achieved ?

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obi_jon 14.07.20 - 03:36pm
Don't really need to imagine it, the 'steampunk' scene hipster folk have already done that. * +

sisfreak2017 14.07.20 - 07:43pm
A few planets would have been visited by humans. * +

piggle 14.07.20 - 08:14pm
Here's the real kicker, imagine where we'd be if half the population wasn't subjugated. The Victorians would be martians * +

9362 14.07.20 - 08:21pm
Wasn't the first computer invented by the Victorians? Charles Babbage, Ada lovelace? * +

mikeymk 15.07.20 - 12:48am
They weren't bound by the legislations of today. Or the politics. * +

3mel 15.07.20 - 01:47am
they built things with the vision that their efforts should last.

MBGA

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vampboy 15.07.20 - 02:49am

@ badapple - 14.07.20 - 03:15pm
Imagine if you will a world where the victorians had computers. I have just watched a program about victorian engineering. They showed a flour mill built in 1860, which still has all the original mechanics. in the 160 years its been working every day and has never broken down once, and not one part has needed replacing. They were showing clifton suspension bridge and the sewers in various places and a viaduct built somewhere in yorkshire. It got me thinking, the victorians did all these magnificent engeneering feats without computers or any of our modern technology. What if they had our technology ? how much more could they have achieved ?

They'd have freaked out and felt fear over the technology. There were already widespread complaints during that period about how digital print would completely turn us blind, imagine all the other liberalism that comes with technology? Society was too conservative then, and it was too superstitious.

Technology would have been shunned or blocked. I don't think they were ready for such large scale technological production eitherway. * +