Comment Another Neal Stephenson prediction (Score 1) 55
IIRC in Anathem, the "internet" was so full of junk you had to rely on an expert to find any legitimate information.
Banks also used pay you to hold and use your money.
They still do, they're called saving accounts...
And they pay about 1/30th the interest that they did when I was a kid.
Mine pays 1.7%. It was up over 2% for a little while last year. What did yours pay when you were a kid (and what was the prime rate at the time)?
I cannot conceive that anybody will require multiplications at the rate of 40,000 or even 4,000 per hour ... -- F. H. Wales (1936)