I bought a Banana Pi as a download/torrent box. Only slightly more expensive (especially if you include shipping) but with a SATA port that gives me about 60MB/s. And it runs Raspbian.

And he doesn't know the singular of phenomena. Fail.

You could get past money in a command economy. You only need money if there is a maeket.

There is SciFi with economic plausibility: dystopian.

Yup. The 70s (maybe late 60s too) were enlightened and progressive compared to today. Back to the Victorians, yay!

Not these?

I'm partial to IBM/Unicomp buckling spring keyboards.

If I read something at full brightness on my laptop I won't fall asleep either. Conversely, if I reduce the brightness to minimum over a minute or two I'll fall asleep soon.

You need N+2 redundancy for large drives. RAID1 or RAID5 will lead to data loss with good probability when a drive has failed, needs to be rebuilt and you get read errors on the remaining drives. The raw read error rate has been unchanged ar 10^-14 despite huge capacity growth.

Yeah, I'd like to see some matter from that star or system interact with something else at "normal" galactic speeds. That would be awesome, space opera stuff a la Doc Smith. A meteor or asteroid at 1/3rd c? Randall Munroe should look into this.

Radiological Society of North America (RSNA): High School Football Players Show Brain Changes after One Season - even without concussion.

Haha. I stayed at a hotel with a golf course once (I don't play golf) and every guest had to acknowledge in writing that walking outside when golfers are present is inherently dangerous and that the hotel is not liable if you're hit by a ball.

I gave up browsing at some point, it was so bad. Amazon was a bit slow but worked OK.

"Access time"="time from sending the request until data starts to flow." For 1,000 times the IOPS the transfer rate and overhead on the bus would have to scale by three orders of magnitude too, which they don't.

Not really. There are a couple of developed nations that still have a high birth rate which shows that reduced fertility is not an automatic byproduct of developmnt. The current UN forecast is 11 billion in the early 22nd century. I think mother nature will have something to say about that.

You forgot the time to charge the flux capacitors.