A paper comic book which is also a functioning computer, implemented in paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRxCTeM5pyU … (By @jasonshiga, via @tophtucker )
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Fun, but also interesting as an instance of how computational ideas can be put out into the world and change it.
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One can imagine an alternate history in which we started to print simple computers using the printing press, in the 15th century
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my first instinctual response to this Fermi paradox is “surely we did and we can’t recognize them”
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Paperpunk!
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In Gutenberg‘s time, ppl computed w pebbles („calcoli“) on special table mats. Cheapening paper made computation symbolic+abstract for good
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