From necessity to a game
9th of February,2006
We are not always conscious of how life changed since the automated calculus machines appeared. Charles Babbage proposed the first model in the 19th century and since then, science took a new path… Human calculations were error prone and the automation would mean a great step towards precission. But not only science was affected: technology, music, art, design, architecture, writing, human relations (that’s a more recent change) and even cooking has changed significantly since.
Now Lego has taken one of the designs by Babbage and made a game out of it…
