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That reminds me, I was as a public service going to make an auto-updating epub of Neuromancer which simply incremented the units as needed to sound duly impress
by aaroninsf 11y ago
That reminds me, I was as a public service going to make an auto-updating epub of Neuromancer which simply incremented the units as needed to sound duly impressive.
"His buyer for the three petabytes of hot RAM..." etc...
- emmelaich 11y agoBetter off making something up. Flebibytes or something. Gibson should've done that in the original.
- kordless 11y agoFlebibytes? That's a crazy amount.
- aaroninsf 11y agoOn the street, sure. In academe anything under ten mangabytes is noise these days tho and I imagine the dark economy is two factors beyond anything we have access to. :/
- stan_rogers 11y agoThat's why Star Trek used things like kiloquads. Unless and until you know what a "quad" is, it's just a number in mid-air.
- taneq 11y agoOr being deliberately nonspecific. Three memory modules, going cheap if no questions asked. That's why Snow Crash still reads so well, it skirts the quantitative and focuses on the qualitative.