jan 1, 1855 - The diffrence engine set

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a great wave of technological and social change has occurred, after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer in 1824.

- The story follows Sybil Gerard (gerard fucking way), a political prostitute and daughter of an executed Luddite leader, Edward "Leviathan" Mallory, a palaeontologist and explorer who comes into a lot of money thanks to a good bet on an advanced steam gurney model; and Laurence Oliphant, a historical figure with a real career, as portrayed in the book, as a travel writer whose work was a cover for espionage activities "undertaken in the service of Her Majesty". The story’s plot is as follows: There are a bunch of computer punch cards that the three characters are fighting for. They are all connected by the mysterious “computer punch cards” and the people fighting to obtain them. Many characters believe that the punch cards are some kind of thing that makes its owner always win at gambling, however the last chapter reveals that the cards represent a program that proves two theorems, which, in reality, would not be discovered until 1931 by Kurt Gödel.

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