Be Magnanimous!

Don’t be too quick to make fun of our recent ancestors. Despite the quaint clothing and the lack of wireless communications the world of 1822 was starting to make incredible progress in all areas of science. The steam engine was, more or less, digital... pressure/no-pressure... but the computer didn’t come into it’s modern incarnation until one hundred and twenty years later. The Industrial Revolution was a significant turning point in the way we look at the world and the way we approach the future. Hopefully, we kept all the good stuff and discarded all the junk.

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