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Imagine if you will a world where the victorians had computers. I have just watched a program about victorian engineering. They showed a flour mill built in 1860, which still has all the original mechanics. in the 160 years its been working every day and has never broken down once, and not one part has needed replacing. They were showing clifton suspension bridge and the sewers in various places and a viaduct built somewhere in yorkshire. It got me thinking, the victorians did all these magnificent engeneering feats without computers or any of our modern technology. What if they had our technology ? how much more could they have achieved ?  |
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@obi_jon | 14 July 20 |
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Don't really need to imagine it, the 'steampunk' scene hipster folk have already done that.
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@sisfreak2017 | 14 July 20 |
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A few planets would have been visited by humans.
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@piggle | 14 July 20 |
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Here's the real kicker, imagine where we'd be if half the population wasn't subjugated. The Victorians would be martians
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@9362 | 14 July 20 |
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Wasn't the first computer invented by the Victorians? Charles Babbage, Ada lovelace?
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@mikeymk | 15 July 20 |
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They weren't bound by the legislations of today. Or the politics.
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@3mel | 15 July 20 |
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they built things with the vision that their efforts should last. MBGA 
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@vampboy | 15 July 20 |
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@ badapple - 14.07.20 - 03:15pm Imagine if you will a world where the victorians had computers. I have just watched a program about victorian engineering. They showed a flour mill built in 1860, which still has all the original mechanics. in the 160 years its been working every day and has never broken down once, and not one part has needed replacing. They were showing clifton suspension bridge and the sewers in various places and a viaduct built somewhere in yorkshire. It got me thinking, the victorians did all these magnificent engeneering feats without computers or any of our modern technology. What if they had our technology ? how much more could they have achieved ? They'd have freaked out and felt fear over the technology. There were already widespread complaints during that period about how digital print would completely turn us blind, imagine all the other liberalism that comes with technology? Society was too conservative then, and it was too superstitious. Technology would have been shunned or blocked. I don't think they were ready for such large scale technological production eitherway. |
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@3mel | 15 July 20 |
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I doubt there were any complaints during the Victorian era about the dangers of digital print
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@vampboy | 15 July 20 |
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@thetagruntbird | 15 July 20 |
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@ vampboy - 15.07.20 - 02:49am They'd have freaked out and felt fear over the technology. There were already widespread complaints during that period about how digital print would completely turn us blind, imagine all the other liberalism that comes with technology? Society was too conservative then, and it was too superstitious. Technology would have been shunned or blocked. I don't think they were ready for such large scale technological production eitherway. There were already widespread complaints during that period about how digital print would completely turn us blind?? Where did you get that from? Did you make it up or is that what they are teaching in schools now? Thats like saying cave men were up in arms about factory farming 
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