<blockquote> Garygoyles represent the embarrasing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bod

<blockquote> Garygoyles represent the embarrasing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into seperate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. <... snip ...> The CIC brass can't stand these guys because they upload staggering quantities of useless information to the database, on the off chance that some of it will eventually be useful. It's like writing down the license number of every car you see on your way to work each morning, just in case one of them will be involved in a hit-and-run accident. Even the CIC database can only hold so much garbage. So, usually, these habitual gargoyles get kicked out of the CIC before too long. </blockquote> -- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992) Almost as quaint has "three megabytes of hot RAM".