For most of our history our trinkets were static objects. Even our tools were solidified chunks of order, such as stone axes, knives, and knitting needles. A few centuries ago we developed the ability to outsource muscle and motion to machines, causing one of the greatest economic expansions of history. Now, we have evolved our collective capacity to process information by creating objects that are endowed with the ability to beget and recombine physical order. These are machines with the ability to process information; steam engines that produce numbers, like the ones that Charles Babbage dreamed about - https://edge.org/response-detail/26176