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"Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together."
- Ray Bradbury
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| Welton Cube | ||
| High-density storage device. |
| "I can use it to write the sort of commentary you want, and take time to miniaturize and stabilize a message. The problems of a time-tripping historiogapher are odd and awkward. One Welton fine-grain memory cube would record all I could say over the next ten years--except that I would have no use for one even if I had it; the technology to use it is lacking.
"By to way--Ishtar, did you plant a recorder in my belly? You are a darling, dear, but sometimes a devious darling--and there is something there. ... But I suspect that it is a Welton cube with an ear hooked to it and a ten-year power supply; it is about the right size." |
| From Time Enough For Love,
by Robert Heinlein. Published by Putnam in 1973 Additional resources -
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They were also used for making backup copies:
Thanks to an anonymous reader for the quote and tip for this item.
"But when I started worrying I started trying to do something to protect the records. I instituted a policy of making dead-storage duplicates of all processed data at the point they enter the Archives. I had in mind copying the entire Archives, then shipping them somewhere. But I had no funding, or enough money of my own, to pay for the memory cubes. They should be Welton Fine-Grains, or they would be too bulky to ship.
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