Questions tagged [information]
For questions about the storage and transportation of information through different media.
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How do I manage memetic infection while time traveling?
Time travel works...just invented, by you. The tests prove it!
After many conversations and significant planning, your epidemiologist significant other has approved your plans for time travel, ...
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How do we destroy data permanently in a world where time travel is easily done?
When you delete data, you make it impossible to retrieve for all times in the future, assuming you have done it right.
However, the data still existed in the past. In a world set in the 22nd century, ...
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How do I have a Dictatorship keep its dictator out of international headlines?
How could the dictator of a poor to middle-income country without any mineral wealth nor strategic position, stay out of the headlines of the big western media?
The assumption is that the dictator ...
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The Information Desk provides all sorts of Information; how did it work?
I am wanting to build a world with a strong retail presence, and became interested in the Information Desk at Selfridge's.
This was not the simple standard store information desk, where you ask ...
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How could publicly accessible information proving that a public figure is corrupt go undetected for at least a year?
How could publicly accessible information proving that a public figure is corrupt go undetected for at least a year?
Assume that the public figure is a moderately noteworthy politician (equivalent to ...
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How much can you compress information?
My main character has access to the entire knowledge of humanity (note: This is year 4000s so they have much more than "our humanity"). He created another consciousness for himself; this new ...
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Where does a virtual being's data move in the physical world whether in a supercomputer or in the internet?
The virtual world is nothing new in science fiction and has had quite a few uses considering it's a fairly recent concept. Since the virtual realm isn't constrained by understanding of physics, it ...
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Julius Caesar with a one-time pad
Julius Caesar used a substitution cipher (now called a Caesar cipher) for sensitive private and military correspondence. The cipher involves shifting all of the letters in a message in one direction a ...
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I'm making a tattooed repository of paramedical knowledge for a religious ceremony. How small can words be if they're tattoos made of cremation ashes?
I have a character. One of their parents died. Said parent was cremated, and then - by their own choice; this is a quasi-religious thing - their cremains were mixed into tattoo ink, and the character ...
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How can I help to verify somebody is from future?
I want to help people to verify they're from future (if they are, of course). For this I publish some facts/numbers on my website, dayly or weekly or whatever, so that a time traveller can remember ...
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Information storage that would work for a space age culture over centuries [duplicate]
Blogger Ray Hardgrit, in his review of the Babylon 5 episode the Parliament of Dreams, describes the data crystals depicted on the show as a "cunningly timeless storage medium" that "...
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How to perform important transactions over vast distances?
I asked a similar question on the History Stack Exchange, but it was suggested I might get better feedback here.
How can you guarantee atomicity of a transaction in a high-latency system?
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How close can I bring a beam of light to a black hole before the information the beam contains is corrupted?
Given the following conditions:
Two space stations of insignificant mass (compared to what can affect the transmission of a beam of light) are separated by a distance of 100,000 light years.
With ...
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"Busted" from the past
Imagine someone claimed she was from Mesopotamia, one of the earliest civilization and had time travelled 5000 years into the future which is now our current modern day, she was completely naked so ...
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How to get around speed of information limitations when remote controlling battle androids?
My story has a group of androids that have enough processing to split their focus and exist in multiple VR simulations, this will then lead to them
being able to control multiple battle droids in the ...
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