@dancingtreefrog @capitainesam hmm... I read that too but same as you it's been over a decade, might be time for a re-read

@dancingtreefrog @capitainesam I'm curious and a fan of cyberpunk... What book are you referring to?

@tomcat @mttaggart I do too, just didn't my 10 year old imagination.

@ShadSterling @tomcat @mttaggart exactly, I imagined it like electricity. Your power company doesn't care if you run a TV or a fridge. You would buy a certain amount of data/time for your central server, like a giant ups for your power company, and then just get all your media from there...

@tomcat @mttaggart back when I was a child, like in the 90s I had this idea of the future but not so orwellian. I imagined that most homes would eventually have a big powerful computer in a cliset/basement/attic and then have several like dumb terminals around that accessed that data. So like you have all the music you like on the central computer then you go in the kitchen and tell the kitchen terminal to play your favorite song.

Kinda like self-hosting but with basic input, screen, audio only