[marcosdumay]

Well, Totient's main fault was that he didn't ask for a time interval big enough.

Make that 150 years, and you couldn't talk about information running through the lines, because people's understanding of "information" was a completely different (and much less powerful) concept.

Make that 200 years, and people that were trying to make machines react to well formed message were as criticized as AI proponents are now.