Friday, June 20, 2025

Jonathan Swift Creates a Fictional Device that Resembles a Modern Computer

https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=2334

https://computerhistory.org/blog/gullivers-engine/

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/the-engine-jonathan-swift-ryLdALEIRQaHnBHp4ZVoOg

https://www.computerhistory.org/siliconengine

Before there was the concept of a Quantum AGI machine, Jonathan Swift imagined a computing engine. However, ACC and Stanley-Kubrick imagined AGI Quantum Server technology in the form of a monolith, that went back billions of years.


https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/06/new-technological-mandalas-and-wrapped-books-made-from-soldered-computer-and-radio-components/

https://www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/mandala/

https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/719647/view/buddhist-shrine-with-computer-chip-cpu

Unfortunatly, this isn't thousands of years old, its not even 100 years old.

https://pixels.com/featured/buddhist-shrine-with-computer-chip-cpu-paul-d-stewart.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/ugnzki/temple_of_ramses_lll_in_luxor_egypt_looks_like Then there are ancient structers that can be view or percieved in a modern context.


The Antikythera_mechanism is indicative of a device in which there was some older advance technology. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84310-w 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Antikythera-mechanism

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-ancient-greek-astronomical-calculation-machine-reveals-new-secrets/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-well-did-the-mysterious-antikythera-mechanism-actually-work-180986451/