thisvorlunatic: (② conspirator)
Miles Naismith Vorkosigan ([personal profile] thisvorlunatic) wrote in [community profile] alicornutopia 2016-01-21 06:36 pm (UTC)

...

Silver grins.

"That," he says, pointing at the desk where he was playing the game, "is a comconsole. I deduce that you don't have any in Fairyland. Just a second."

He clears the game away and pulls up a menu, which he rapidly navigates to find a holographic pie chart.

"So, I'm using about one percent of its information storage capacity and I have about," he squints at the display, "two hundred and fifty hours of music, two hundred hours of vids, and a hundred and fifty million books. And most of the physical size of the object is not data storage, it's cipher circuits and projection equipment. I don't know offhand how much physical space it would take to store the collected historical media output of the entire galaxy, but I'd be surprised if it overflowed this house."

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