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> no nuclear energy, no computers I guess guys like Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace just sat on their hands.

• blueskin_ 13y ago
  Fine, s/no/very delayed/ happy?
• mcv 13y ago
  > I guess guys like Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace just sat on their hands. Well no, but they didn't succeed either. For a world where they did, read some steampunk literature.
  • blueskin_ 13y ago
    Babbage might have, but only if he had several times the funding and lifespan he did.
    • mcv 13y ago
      Might have but didn't, which is my point. WW2 increased the demand for automated computing, which got computer development the funding it didn't have 100 years earlier.