posted in Asklemmy
What is something that's crazier than the wildest dreams of any ~1970s nerd, but exists today? I'll start with an easy one:
In Johnny Mnemonic the upload in the brain was 320GB and he had to erase his childhood memories. Today it would be just a microSD. The story is set in 2021.
Replying to @bufalo1973@piefed.social
Star Trek mostly avoided that problem. They made up a fictional unit of data storage called a “quad” to avoid the problem of “the Borg source code is too big for our databanks, it’s 3.2 gigabytes in size.”
The author of the novelization of Wrath of Kahn didn’t see it coming; one of the scientists on Regula 1 in the book, not the movie, complains that his personal computer didn’t have enough room for a 4 megabyte “50 meg” game.
Replying to @captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
It always impresses me that in TNG the episode they give Data’s specs that it’s still impossibly futuristic to this day.
Replying to @JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
He states his storage capacity as “800 quadrillion bits” which works out to ~100 petabytes?
Replying to @captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
In that form factor. We are getting closer to that just being normal. Right now, not possible.