Johnny!

I can’t wait for the day I go to watch Johnny Mnemonic and chuckle after it’s done, saying, “isn’t -that- quaint?” And then I’ll pick up my completely wireless i-glasses (powered by WiTricity, doncha know) and wish my personal neural network “good afternoon”. I’ll put on a ring or two for navigating, unless of course I’m using a ballcap-like neural interface. “Jacking In”?! That’s so… 20th century.

Johnny: I can carry nearly eighty gigs of data in my head. – talk about increasingly irrelevant dialogue. My laptop holds more than that, and Solid State Drives are coming along swiftly. We are in a time where movies should not contain direct references to digital storage space, because it will take no time at all for them to be obsolete.

~ by Skennedy on June 9, 2007.

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9 Responses to “Johnny!”

  1. The storage and speeds noted for the Enterprise and Data seem a bit low for that far into the future, if you ask me. But I’m silly like that. :-)

    plasmonicgrid said this on June 9, 2007 at 10:38 pm

    • that’s why eventually they made up their own units of storage – millicochranes or something like that.

      Sigh… I spent way too much time reading the star trek encyclopedia in middle school…

      thunderclap8 said this on June 10, 2007 at 1:49 am

  2. You do realize that the movie came out a LONG time ago xP

    cirrusstrafe said this on June 9, 2007 at 10:39 pm

    • Heh, yes, 11 years ago, I’m quite aware. And the script was written even further back, based of a Gibson short story from even further back from that. Which, really, adds more validity to my point.

      atdt1991 said this on June 10, 2007 at 6:44 am

  3. That rooster could have used an alarm clock implant.

    kitschicat said this on June 9, 2007 at 10:46 pm

  4. concerning WiTricity…

    At a transfer distance of 7 feet, and the coils being something like 2 feet long, this has a long way to go. Not to mention that half of the electricity is lost in the transfer.

    This is all per the guy who developed it, talking on NPR yesterday.

    snakeinmypants said this on June 9, 2007 at 11:59 pm

    • Sure. honestly, I would expect it to, say, charge the batteries of anything on top of a desk or within a foot of the desk, more than serious significant distance.

      I referenced it because I was talking about the future, and it’s a futuristic method of powering devices. We don’t have the sort of “these could be regular glasses” i-glasses these days, anyway, nor a sufficient neural cap to pick up detailed brain patterns without shaving yoru head, nor more than a demonstration ring for navigation.

      atdt1991 said this on June 10, 2007 at 6:47 am

  5. I was watching that today, as a matter of fact.

    I want… ROOM SERVICE!!

    childe said this on June 10, 2007 at 3:14 am

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