My Chanukah present from David was the third season of Babylon 5, which I have happily been wolfing down in large chunks. (“And they made a very agreeable thump!”)
Tonight we were rescreening “Passing Through Gethsemane,” in which a character searches for information about himself. (This is me, avoiding mega-spoilers.) “Four hours,” the computer says, after the character inputs his query (by voice, of course; this is the twenty-third century).
“Google works a lot faster than that,” David remarked.
“Well,” I said, “I figure it’s a metasearch problem. Computer has to send the query out to all the different [subject] databases on all the different planets and colonies… there must be some heinous latency involved, never mind the communications lag.”
My name is Dorothea, and I am a shrieking-geek librarian.
