No matter how "ahead of their time" a sci-fi author was (and I'm talking from at least twenty, thirty years back, any more recent doesn't count), it would seem that everybody underestimated computers.

Like I'm reading The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Heinlein... no idea how old it is, but his main character harps on the amazing storage capacity of these data wafers that are a couple centimeters big. They can store around half a million words.

Let's give a generous estimate and say each word is 10 characters or 10 bytes, right? Half a million words times 10 bytes per word is 5 million bytes or 5 thousand kilobytes... or five megabytes.

There are jpg images on my computer larger than 5 megabytes.

Well maybe not quite. But I could find 2 images that add up to over 5 mB. In any case...

It's kind of funny how everyone expected humans to be able to construct massive space colonies before it became possible to hold a terabyte in your palm. Yet it turned out completely the other way around... and how!

In other news, 52-pickup is back up to date, and chapter 15 (new) has been posted.