"FWLS60" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

His stupid sorting program managed to completely screw up
the Library's video index. Sure, the tapes were in their proper
locations, but the labels were mixed up. It'd take a week at
least to relabel them.

The tapes were in alphabetical order, though, regardless of
how they were labelled. I just had to poke around the letters
and binary search my way to the specific topic I wanted.

I had a feeling it'd be in the 'M's. One article about the
Manson murders... some McDonald's Happy Meal commercials...
Mandella (Nelson) is released from prison...

No, no, no. I remember something about Make Money Fast, but
it wasn't really wildly newsworthy on a reality level. It dealt
with the net, in whatever incarnation it formed at the moment.
It would probably barely get a mention. People seemed to enjoy
ignoring or trivializing things they don't understand, and not
too many people really grasp the importance of net.

I ran through to the beginning of the 'M's, searching the
'MA's, poking through the lying labels with a stick in the dark.

"--Rhodes was found brutally tortured and killed at his
villa in Western Florida today," a newslady was reading. "The
Coalition for Free Data claimed responsibility, calling the
striking down of 'the net's biggest spammer and waster of
bandwidth' the first in many acts planned against the Internet.
The FBI are looking into the validity of this threat, but suspect
it will not turn out to be any danger to the public. In other
news--"

No mention of some money-making scheme. I span the reel
backwards a bit, skipping two articles in the Make Money Fast
file.

"--and in lighter news, users all over the Information
Superhighway woke to find a chain letter written by one Dave
Rhodes in their mailbox, and a copy of it posted to every 'Use
Net' group. A lot of computer guys were miffed at this, and it
has spawned some angry protests on the network to find Rhodes and
'make him pay for spamming us'. Good luck, guys, and have fun.
At the city dog show--"

Looks like they made good on that threat, I chuckled.
Still, what was the problem? Sure, it's a waste of resources,
but can't you just delete the mail and get on with your life? I
twisted the Library viewer a few more degrees, moving on to the
article I had accidentally passed over.