“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar

Re:“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbin... by cwp on Saturday December 24, 2016 @12:32AM (#13248725)

Probably the worst (best) bit of future-past in Neuromancer is that it starts with the main character trying to fence "three megabytes of hot RAM". That seemed like a ludicrously large amount when it was written.

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Re:“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbin... by lobster_johnson on Saturday December 24, 2016 @12:42AM (#13248754)

I think we can give Gibson the benefit of the doubt here and say the point was not the size, but the fact that it was hot RAM -- the contents was valuable. The price of 3MB, even as early as in 1984, was not so high as to make it that impressive even by the standards of the day.

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Re:“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbin... by SamReidHughes on Saturday December 24, 2016 @03:42AM (#13249118)

Hey, 3 megs of RAM is nothing to sneeze at: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP48-2MB-RAM-memory-card-for-HP48GX-...

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Re:“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbin... by mortenjorck on Saturday December 24, 2016 @01:00AM (#13248805)

Ha, I never considered that. It would fit with the data-smuggling theme of Johnny Mnemonic (the short story, at least), which is set in the same universe.

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Re:“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbin... by Lio on Saturday December 24, 2016 @06:08AM (#13249347)

I always thought it was a prototype of some very, very fast cache RAM.

I think I like your idea of hot RAM containing data better now.

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