The Analyser, made by Charles Babbage, if it were real, how would the world be today?
If The Analyst, designed and created by Charles Babbage in 1822, had been built as a working machine instead of just an idea, we might have gone from writing letters with pen & ink to sending emails on iPads. The way information was organized would have evolved into search engines that could instantly find any piece of data you wanted without having to sift through tons of files or use up your limited storage space. Information itself wouldn't exist as text documents anymore but rather as interconnected blocks of code that can quickly retrieve what they need based off keywords or patterns within their own language. In short, every aspect of our lives would look very different than they do now, because so much information is stored digitally these days instead of being held in paper books. And yes, I know this all sounds like science fiction, but the fact remains that the technology has advanced far enough to make such machines possible.