The clockwork actually is the best kind of computer they had in the 1600s (in a clock it's dividing time units, they had mechanical calculators, and see also th

The clockwork actually is the best kind of computer they had in the 1600s (in a clock it's dividing time units, they had mechanical calculators, and see also the antikyra mechanism), so that's a similar comparison If in the future the comparison will be "quantum", then again, a quantum computer is also a kind of computer