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Originally Posted by rmcconachy
Not in homes they didn't, they had iceboxes which weren't as cold as current freezers even if you did keep reloading them with ice. The difference is important if you want to preserve food for a lengthy period. Refrigerators in 1911 were massive things used in factories (sometimes).
I'm afraid that I do not understand your last post. Where does the "...fight wars over it, scare the daylights with arms races, and basically take human life for it" come from? Some new technologies and technical improvements have come from defense research, e.g., radar and a lot of aeronautical stuff, but that was a consequence of the way history unfolded rather than because it had to be that way. Charles Babbage was playing with computers more than a century ago. Neither vacuum tubes nor transistors were invented by defense research (the latter was invented in the Bell Telephone Labs). Tools can be used for good and bad purposes and progress can happen in peace or during war. I'm sorry but I don't get where you are coming from.
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Mate...they had Ice powered fridges. Ice used to come from the mountains on horse driven carts to the towns. People used to buy Ice blocks so they could power their fridges on it.
Function = same, only difference is computer.
point is, they still had fridges. same function = food preservation.
If you want to know where I'm coming from:
If you take a household from 1911 and compare it to one exactly the same as today minus the computer, only difference is the computer.
You can perform the comparison at any part of the living condition spectrum and the difference will always be the computer. This is the achievement of man in 100 years. But look at the price we paid to have it in our homes, and was it worth it?
It is a little confusing, if you compare a household of 1911 against one of equal caliber of today, the difference is the computer.
Function = same, only difference is computer.
Regards...