Myhrvold & Swade Discuss Babbage's Difference Engine

*I never realized that Nathan Myhrvold had name-checked the novel that William Gibson and I wrote on Babbage while describing his ten-year struggle to finish two of these machines. That's very touching.

*It's also touching to realize that a third Difference Engine will never be built — at least, never by those authentic methods. The world doesn't have an army of Myhrvolds and Swades any more than it ever had an army of Babbages.

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