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Und warum sollte Charles Stross seinen near Future Roman “Halting State” der in Edinburgh so Mitte des nächsten Jahrzehnts spielt auf dem Telefon schreiben? Lest selbst:

Being inclined towards crazy stunt performances, I’m planning on writing “Halting State” on my mobile phone. This is technologically feasible because the phone in question has more memory and online storage than every mainframe in North America in 1972 (and about the same amount of raw processing power as a 1977-vintage Cray-1 supercomputer). It’s a zeitgeist thing: I need to get into the right frame of mind, and I need to use a mobile phone for the same reason Neal Stephenson used a fountain pen when he wrote the Baroque cycle. Afters all, I want to stick my head ten years into the future. Personal computers are already passé; sales are declining, performance is stagnating, the real action is all in the interstitial networked devices that keep washing up on the beaches of our bandwidth ocean, crazy-weird things like 3G phones and battery-powered network attached storage boxes and bluetooth-controlled vibrators.
Charlie’s Diary

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