gigaseconds

We'd be right back to iteration one of the waterfall model of singularity formation within a couple of gigaseconds of arriving.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

An unoptimized instance of H. Sapiens maintains state coherency for only two to three gigaseconds before it succumbs to necrosis, but in only about four times that, the infestation of humans had turned the dead brown dwarf system upside-down.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Sirhan made a devil's bargain with Aineko, all those gigaseconds ago, and now he is deathly afraid that Aineko is going to call the payment due.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

They'd nearly killed Aineko and Sirhan's mother Amber, once upon a time, by convincing them that they were old friends: the uploaded minds of spiny lobsters, transcended and set free to roam between the stars by Manfred, many gigaseconds ago.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

So it is that the tribal groups remain, associations mediated across teraklicks and gigaseconds by exotic agencies.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

I might have more to blog on this later, but this addiction to recency is an interesting phenomenon. p.s. I probably also noticed this because I've been reading a lot of Charles Stross and Vernor Vinge, and they both use their own alternate time systems in their novels - a decimal-based system - kiloseconds, megaseconds, gigaseconds, etc.

The Pursuit Of A Life 2008