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Episode 86 - Fluidic Computing

Advent of Computing

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The Fluidic Computers of the Future

The venusians never evolved eyes like ours. There just isn't much to see, and the arid atmosphere would drive them out pretty quick. They had an industrial revolution, but it didn't end in electronic power since they didn't need lights for their underground homes. Maybe at one point they even experimented with gear base computers, but those fell out of fashion once binary became the way of the future. The venusian industrial revolution required a lot of math, so eventually a grand calculating machine was devised. It used convenient materials, pressurized carbon dioxide and volcanic glass. All right, that does it for our very literal exploration of the flow of data. I think we've charted

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