Sometimes you find the nail to hit

[branchandroot]

And wouldn’t it actually explain steampunk technology a whole lot better to assume it arose out of multiple centers of development, all exchanging and competing, and warring and trading, and inventing like mad?

This is what a week of crazy-wild reading and note-taking and contemplation of the history of technology come down to. That, right there, is the heart of this project.

Ah, and while I'm at it: Global Steam website. Still thin on content while I get my notes written up so people besides me can read them, but the infrastructure is up. *dusts hands*

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[branchandroot]

I think they really might! Heck, we might even be able to avoid the world wars, at least in that form, since Africa isn't going to be an extra theater for all the colonial powers in this timeline, and more tech suggests already having moved past huge bodies of foot soldiers.

I had not seen that before, no! That's totally cool! I shall have to ask if I may link to them in the "other really sweet ways to do this" section...