Reading Victorian England novels is interesting as they were busily inventing huge chunks of the modern world. Which in many ways was quite stable until the last 20-30 years or so where we've been busily inventing TBD (we can't seem to stabilize on anything)

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Beware the chaos unleashed by huge technological leaps!

Victorian stuff is fairly nostalgic for me as my mom's mom especially was very Victorian-ish and my mom too to some extent so reading about Victorian culture feels very familiar

Neither could the Victorians. Their run ended with WW1