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Of course, Telford was just the first of a series of
engineering giants. There was also Brunel, who designed the Clifton suspension
bridge at 24 and went on to create the Great Eastern - the Concorde of
its day: a technological masterpiece, a financial folly on the grand scale.
There were the Stephenson brothers and their railways. Over the past year,
I have begun exploring these giants of the industrial revolution, and pondering
the parallels between the challenges they faced and those which face us
as we grapple with the implications of the information revolution.
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