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To: Taro who wrote (314751)	12/9/2006 6:26:35 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573683

"Babbage and his machines creating pollution and serious CO2 outlets? " No. Babbage's machines were a product of a pretty highly industrialized economy. One that had been around for a few decades. Such things just don't pop up out of a vacuum, there is an infrastructure that it grows out of. Clearly you aren't a fan of Burke's Connections series. Or John Lienhard's "The Engines of Our Ingenuity". uh.edu Knowing the details of Babbage's machines gives you a floor on the available technology of the time. They didn't predate the Industrial Revolution, but were a product of it.