I was thinking during Life Drawing this afternoon: As computing power gets more progressively geared toward simulations and Constructed Reality (known to most, rather erringly in my opinion, as Virtual Reality) and we begin to biuld the information universe inward, the byte will probably be a slightly errant unit of computing power, or at least ab it obsolete. at any rate, it enforces the meme that Constructed Reality isn't 'real', when in fact it's just real as our minds. During the drawing break, I brainstormed a couple of alternative measures of data.
Atom: (con-atom, 'A') The amount of data needed to simulate a unit with the same function as an atom, may be useful depending on the size of the con-brane and the computer used to support it
Photon:('P'?) the amount of data needed to simulate a photon, the most prevalant information-carrying entity in our universe.
Personally, I think both models could be used once the processing power is available (perhaps data stored in two portions of the supporting computer... 'matter engine' and 'energy engine', perhaps?)
Just a random offspew of thought.
