It's remarkable what some 200,000 people (maybe fewer?) in ancient Athens were apparently able to come up with.[1] They even did pretty well with computing wit

It's remarkable what some 200,000 people (maybe fewer?) in ancient Athens were apparently able to come up with.[1] They even did pretty well with computing with the Antikythera mechanism and its predecessors; though, like Babbage, they were limited by the manufacturing technology of the day. [1] https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1165/ancient-greek-inventions/ https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1165/ancient-greek-inve...