Comments on: The compression of history http://blog.dominicsayers.com/2007/09/17/the-compression-of-history/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:53:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dominic Sayers http://blog.dominicsayers.com/2007/09/17/the-compression-of-history/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Dominic Sayers Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:25:27 +0000 http://blog.dominicsayers.com/2007/09/17/the-compression-of-history/#comment-225 A good list, thank you El. I pretty much agree with you that the sport story can be extended to other areas of innovation but I didn't want to make such a sweeping statement without thinking about it some more. It would have been interesting to see what progress on computing would have been made if Ada Lovelace, a mathematician and collaborator of Babbage's, had lived beyond the age of 36. She appeared to have a much wider vision of what the difference engine could become. A good list, thank you El. I pretty much agree with you that the sport story can be extended to other areas of innovation but I didn’t want to make such a sweeping statement without thinking about it some more.

It would have been interesting to see what progress on computing would have been made if Ada Lovelace, a mathematician and collaborator of Babbage’s, had lived beyond the age of 36. She appeared to have a much wider vision of what the difference engine could become.

]]> By: El Director http://blog.dominicsayers.com/2007/09/17/the-compression-of-history/comment-page-1/#comment-224 El Director Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:33:02 +0000 http://blog.dominicsayers.com/2007/09/17/the-compression-of-history/#comment-224 Add to the list of British innovations that were developed abroad: Tilting train (APT) Cars with front wheel drive (Mini) Jet engine (Comet) The computer (Charles Babbage) The World Wide Web (www) And this is just off the top of my head. Add to the list of British innovations that were developed abroad:

Tilting train (APT)
Cars with front wheel drive (Mini)
Jet engine (Comet)
The computer (Charles Babbage)
The World Wide Web (www)

And this is just off the top of my head.

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