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Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep has a "dataset", basically an educator PDA for a child (covered in fake fur, IIRC) that contains a nearly bottomless amount
by kabdib 8y ago
Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep has a "dataset", basically an educator PDA for a child (covered in fake fur, IIRC) that contains a nearly bottomless amount of information. It's captured and used by an alien race to get a technological advantage in a local war.
I really like the idea that even a kid's toy would have petabytes or exabytes of data, just because it was easy for the designers to include it.
- EdwardCoffin 8y agoThat book also had the archive at Relay, and the archive in the low beyond, the subset of the archive that the Out of Band II carried. I think that another of his books in the series, A Deepness in the Sky had a broadcast library, a set of core information that was repeatedly broadcast throughout the galaxy, at least that's what I seem to remember.