Posting something, so that it is understood that this has not been the haughty silence of one who is Too Famous to Respond to Comments, but rather the awkward, paralyzed muteness of one opening a door to a broom closet and finding a large expectant audience in there waiting for her to say something funny.
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OH FAME THOU GAUDY BAUBLE! Charles Babbage Foresees the Future on BBC’s Techlab! When they asked me to do this I read their little intro where it says it’s a forum for “The World’s Leading Thinkers” to speculate about the future, and I thought, if that’s me, boy are we in trouble.

There’s footnotes [...]

Took me a while but.. prepare for A TALE OF TERROR! DRAWN FROM LIFE!!!

Notes! Beautiful notes!
–Footmen were selected for their fine physiques, so that drawing of Minion is of historical, not prurient interest, or course!
–Speaking tubes! Babbage advocates for them in Machines and Manufactures, along with his proto-twitter signal lights and steeple-borne [...]