James Gleick Quote
Other people, too, worried about this new gap between the speeds of travel and messaging. An important London banker told Babbage he disapproved: It will enable our clerks to plunder us, and then be off to Liverpool on their way to America at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Babbage could only express the hope that science might yet find a remedy for the problem it had created.
James Gleick
Other people, too, worried about this new gap between the speeds of travel and messaging. An important London banker told Babbage he disapproved: It will enable our clerks to plunder us, and then be off to Liverpool on their way to America at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Babbage could only express the hope that science might yet find a remedy for the problem it had created.
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About James Gleick
Gleick's books include the international bestsellers Chaos: Making a New Science (1987) and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (2011). Three of his books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists; and The Information was awarded the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012 and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages.