Intel held its annual open-house Research Day for the media at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View this year, placing its impressive displays of future technologies among hardware relics of transistors past.
While we admired a demonstration of how electrical power could be transmitted wirelessly in one corner, at the other end of the museum, Difference Engine No. 2 was being cranked up – a computing machine designed by Charles Babbage in 1849.
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