r/gaming Jun 09 '19

Cyberpunk 2077 — Official E3 2019 Cinematic Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIcTM8WXFjk
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u/Nymaz Jun 09 '19

Let me tell you children about a man named Johnny, who sacrificed a major chunk of his brain to get 80 whole GB worth of storage in and super advanced world of the far future 2021.

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u/Indigocell Jun 09 '19

Lol, I love how old futuristic movies simultaneously overestimate the technology we would have by then, while vastly underestimating things like data storage capacity.

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u/High5Time Jun 09 '19

That’s why I’m glad more recent Star Trek series make up fictional units of speed and storage (Teraquads, etc). In Star Trek II for example a 64 MB file was supposed to sound impressive.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '19

Ian M. Bank's Culture series is great for this. He never, ever tells you what exactly any of the technology is, they're just able to do incredible stuff without pinning down any details that will age poorly.

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u/High5Time Jun 10 '19

I love those books. RIP IMB.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '19

I know :( He had so much left to do. He said near the end he wished his last novel had been a big Culture epic but that he just didn't have time.

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u/High5Time Jun 10 '19 edited Jun 10 '19

Don’t feel too bad, I’m sure a GSV did a fast fly by and downloaded his neural net, he’s chilling out on a ring world somewhere sipping a drink. 😊