@bartholin (surströmming arc) well i thought i was pretty clear but ok
in neuromancer somebody gets crimed for 8mb ram sticks
gibson wrote a foreword in later rereleases that he felt stupid about not predicting cell phones, and the times he borrowed from real tech aged out hard but the stuff he made up still holds as a story
then i made a reference about sam altman's chip crisis and society's failure to ration vital components despite academic evidence that mass diffisuion of opportunity produces more prosperity than gatekeeping
:blobcatnerd: i will not elaborate further