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kleinbl00  ·  2737 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Young men are "falling off the income ladder"

It's almost forgotten to time now, but Patient Zero for steampunk was a charming and thought-provoking (if sterile) novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling called The Difference Engine.

It posited an alternate timeline where Babbage and Lovelace got their Analytical Engine working in time to provoke the dawn of computing in the 1840s.