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dsrtao_Debatable Space_, Philip Palmer
It's a space-opera romp through the semi-post-human future, told primarily by a once-human immortal. There's FTL piracy and a rebellion against the evil emperor. Hundreds of thousands of people die, and millions of spaceships and robots.
Ferrite core memory, magnetic tapes, mag-optic WORMs, CD ROMs, DVD ROMs, Blue-Ray, HD-DVD. Even assuming a vast reduction in Moore's doubling time for computing which is not attested to by any other technology in the book (Dyson swarms of Mars-sized habitats, self-replicating nanoswarms with magical power sources and no obvious heat issues...) I would be vastly surprised to hear of DVD-ROM being the storage medium of choice in the 2050s, much less CD-ROMs still being viable tech 500+ years from now. Note to SF authors: 'optical disk' is a better term than 'DVD-ROM'. 'Storage disk' or 'memory module' is even better. Unless you want to mention the really cool technology explicitly, in which case it should be consistent with your general tech level.
There are a few sympathetic characters, but they all die.
It's a space-opera romp through the semi-post-human future, told primarily by a once-human immortal. There's FTL piracy and a rebellion against the evil emperor. Hundreds of thousands of people die, and millions of spaceships and robots.
Ferrite core memory, magnetic tapes, mag-optic WORMs, CD ROMs, DVD ROMs, Blue-Ray, HD-DVD. Even assuming a vast reduction in Moore's doubling time for computing which is not attested to by any other technology in the book (Dyson swarms of Mars-sized habitats, self-replicating nanoswarms with magical power sources and no obvious heat issues...) I would be vastly surprised to hear of DVD-ROM being the storage medium of choice in the 2050s, much less CD-ROMs still being viable tech 500+ years from now. Note to SF authors: 'optical disk' is a better term than 'DVD-ROM'. 'Storage disk' or 'memory module' is even better. Unless you want to mention the really cool technology explicitly, in which case it should be consistent with your general tech level.
There are a few sympathetic characters, but they all die.
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Date: 2008-01-29 06:10 pm (UTC)I think this was covered by Swift, he was farsighted enough to see that this would not be a "good thing".
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Date: 2008-01-29 06:53 pm (UTC)