Step 3: Profit!

Link stolen from Suela's LJ: counterpoint.

We've come a long way, baby.

We've come a long way, baby.

I have a co-worker who, upon seeing my *128 MB* thumb drive (hey, I bought it 5 years ago!) was ASTONISHED. You would have thought that I had showed him the tiny people in the TV or something. Actual comment:

"That's, like....60 times bigger than a floppy disk! ...But why would you ever need that much storage? Everything *I* need fits on a floppy!"

This is the same person who pronounced the Mac Mini "unusable" because it doesn't have a floppy drive. When I pointed out that none of the Power Mac towers have floppy drives, either, he said, "How does Apple not go under if they're making products that don't have drives that people need?!?"

He's a little behind the times. We haven't told him about The Internets yet.

I think all personal computers became "unusable" then they took the "turbo" button off. How are we supposed to play our early '80s DOS games???

I still have a CP/M machine down at my folks place. It's in a homemade wooden case and it has 8" Floppy drives. I wonder if it would even start up at this point.

There was a creepy transitional moment a few years or so back when the storage media that we can take for granted in the first world is *smaller* than the storage media we see in sci-fi, and even recent sci fi. I mean, there's no point putting anything smaller than a micro SD card in your big flashy tech movie, because you can't see the freaking thing. Probably more impressive to make it translucent and glowy like Stargate's inscrutable tech components.

I mean, dude, the handheld Trek stuff from just about any iteration? Bigger than my phone, and much of it less powerful.

There was a creepy transitional moment a year or so back when the storage media that we can take for granted in the first world is *smaller* than the storage media we see in sci-fi, and even recent sci fi.

Crossthready, but one of the main reasons the Shadowrun RPG had to release a forth edition within the last year or so is because real world technology had completely surpassed their imagined future tech.

I mean, dude, the handheld Trek stuff from just about any iteration? Bigger than my phone, and much of it less powerful.

It was amusing to upgrade my OS:Trek flip communicator (RAZR flip phone) for a better, smaller, more powerful Next Gen PADD (iPhone).

We had a big argument about that playing Shadowrun a few years ago. MM was the GM and he had to admit the rules were kinda messed up with the pricing and size structure when I pulled a miniSD card out of my cell phone that was the size of a fingernail and cost less than $50. The game was supposed to be so advanced and the authors just never even guess that things would get so tiny so quickly.

Shadowrun x-post. BWAH!