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Post #631061

2026-03-11 03:27 UTC

Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months

Replies (9)

  • @goatrodeo@mstdn.social 2026-03-11 03:59

    @BoredomFestival Wow, a flash forward from the past. Must reread this. Thanks! William Gibson was prescient on so many levels

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  • @clanger9@mastodon.online 2026-03-11 08:39

    @BoredomFestival In the early nineties I sold 8MB of 100ns DRAM chips to pay off a credit card debt. So, yeah. Feels like we're back where we started.

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  • @flun1tr4z3p4m@mas.to 2026-03-11 08:41

    @BoredomFestival lately I’ve been constantly thinking about Neuromancer. Almost seems like it’s been used as a guide book by some, but not in the good way. Anyway, I just wish @GreatDismal was more into mastodon than twitter

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  • @Tacitus@masto.bike 2026-03-11 10:08

    @BoredomFestival funny and sad 😉

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  • @burnitdown@beige.party 2026-03-11 10:12

    @BoredomFestival this has happened before.

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  • @alexanderondu@troet.cafe 2026-03-11 11:58

    @BoredomFestival I just looked up that passage. It says 3 MB of "hot" RAM from "the Hitachi". Isn't "Hitachi" synonymous with a certain kind of toy for grown-ups these days? Those surely have 3 MB of RAM nowadays. And it would be "hot" RAM for sure.

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  • @Sonikku@techhub.social 2026-03-11 13:38

    @BoredomFestival @benroyce next generation of consoles will be a re-cased Dreamcast.

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  • @hush404@mstdn.ca 2026-03-11 13:50

    @BoredomFestival Longtime fan of CP (Cyberpunk).... starting to hate how real shit is getting (also, its always the terrible stuff and none of the cool stuff from the genre).

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  • @gellge@infosec.exchange 2026-03-11 18:41

    @BoredomFestival time certainly is a flat circle.

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