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This is also what makes Steampunk so fascinating.

• ChuckMcM 9y ago
  I always imagine that in the steampunk universe is 'the number of gears in a mechanism doubles every 2 years' and then extrapolate where we would be today :-)
  • mml 9y ago
    there's a book along those themes. a corporation's power was measured in "cam feet", and the main plot revolved around the theft of a stack of punchcards with some important algorithm or other on them.
    • syncsynchalt 9y ago
      Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine