In another bit of poorly-aged prediction by Gibson, Case, the main character, brings some RAM with him to sell for a quick buck on the street. How much RAM? Three entire megabytes.
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ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” W. Gibson.
It’s wild that this makes no, or little at most, sense to entire generations now.
Davel23@fedia.io 2 months ago
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 2 months ago
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Here’s the real question: did Gibson write Neuromancer before or after Bill Gates said no one would ever conceivably need more than 640k of RAM?
Davel23@fedia.io 2 months ago
I'm not sure, but I always found it mildly amusing that he wrote it on a manual typewriter.
QubaXR@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ha I remember that. I also recall someone in the 80s there was a pop song popular in Poland, entitled “Glass Weather”. It was about these rainy autumn evenings when there’s nothing better to do than sit in front of your (black and white) TV. The lyrics were mentioning “apartment window blue from the TV glow”.
Davel23@fedia.io 2 months ago
What do you mean? It's blue, right?
(It's a joke. Don't worry, I get the original meaning, I'm old.)