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In Sir Terry Pratchett's novel _Making Money_ there is a hydraulic analog computer used to model the economy of Ankh-Morpork[1]. Sounds very much as if Pratchet
by fernly 8y ago
In Sir Terry Pratchett's novel _Making Money_ there is a hydraulic analog computer used to model the economy of Ankh-Morpork[1]. Sounds very much as if Pratchett might have heard of this Russian one. However according to that article, the Glooper was in fact modeled after another hydraulic analog computer, the MONIAC[2].
[1] http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Glooper http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Glooper
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC
- andreareina 8y agoNot only was the Glooper used to model the economy, in typical Discworld fashion it came to actually mirror the economy, such that manipulating the Glooper would cause the same changes in the economy!