Hi
This is one wild idea but... I began to wonder about how to do what could be called a Information Technology-wank TL: the idea is that information technology (communications and computing) is pushed forward the faster possible and what the consequences of it would be for the world.
Two possibilities for a POD and TL development:
1) After WWI, the increase of trade between the nations force the search for new manners to keep the track of the cargos - it would lead to an early development of mechanical and electromechanical calculators, at the same time that for the growing of telephone networks (and later telex) and the expansion of the use of wireless (radio) for international communication. The rediscovery of Babbage and Ludgate's ideas about an "Analytical Engine" and the increased use of Hollerith mechanical tabulators would open the possibility for an electromechanical analytical engine (EAEs) (more towards plain accounting than other type of data processing). Later the increased use of EAEs would lead to the idea of connect two or more of them through the telex network...
Or...
2) In 1952, recent-elect President Eisenhower become impressed with UNIVAC I after it had predict his election in a landslide, and began a massive computerization programs for the civil side of the government.
What you think? How we can push these technologies forward, without ASBs?
This is one wild idea but... I began to wonder about how to do what could be called a Information Technology-wank TL: the idea is that information technology (communications and computing) is pushed forward the faster possible and what the consequences of it would be for the world.
Two possibilities for a POD and TL development:
1) After WWI, the increase of trade between the nations force the search for new manners to keep the track of the cargos - it would lead to an early development of mechanical and electromechanical calculators, at the same time that for the growing of telephone networks (and later telex) and the expansion of the use of wireless (radio) for international communication. The rediscovery of Babbage and Ludgate's ideas about an "Analytical Engine" and the increased use of Hollerith mechanical tabulators would open the possibility for an electromechanical analytical engine (EAEs) (more towards plain accounting than other type of data processing). Later the increased use of EAEs would lead to the idea of connect two or more of them through the telex network...
Or...
2) In 1952, recent-elect President Eisenhower become impressed with UNIVAC I after it had predict his election in a landslide, and began a massive computerization programs for the civil side of the government.
What you think? How we can push these technologies forward, without ASBs?