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  • Davel23@fedia.io
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    7 months ago

    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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      7 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?

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        7 months ago

        I’m not sure, but I always found it mildly amusing that he wrote it on a manual typewriter.