I read a book[0] a few years ago that spends some time on the rise and fall of analog computing. Of course in the early electrical computer era it was not obvio

I read a book[0] a few years ago that spends some time on the rise and fall of analog computing. Of course in the early electrical computer era it was not obvious that digital computing would be the best way forward. Digital modeling is a pretty block-headed way to go about building a simulation. And when computers were slow and tubes and memory were very expensive it seemed even more block-headed. The main advantage was flexibility so as digital computers got faster and cheaper they ate more and more domains where analog computers might have seemed more ideally suited. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Universal-History-Computing-Quantum-Computer/dp/0471441473 https://www.amazon.com/Universal-History-Computing-Quantum-C...