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[[File:Hollerith_Punched_Card.jpg|thumb|Hollerith punched card. Steganographic analysis suggests that the card maybe carry several hundred bytes of concealed data.]]'''Hollerith''' (? - ?) better known as "'''The Card Man'''", is | [[File:Hollerith_Punched_Card.jpg|thumb|Hollerith punched card. Steganographic analysis suggests that the card maybe carry several hundred bytes of concealed data.]]'''Hollerith''' (? - ?) better known as "'''The Card Man'''", is a time traveller who trades in data. | ||
In his role as The Card Man, he buys, stores, and sells data using [[Hollerith card (nonfiction)|punched cards]] which he has modified to acts as random-access, read-write devices, typically with one or more steganographic encryption channels. High-end cards may incorporate [[artificial intelligence (nonfiction)]] -- or perhaps smarter demons. | In his role as The Card Man, he buys, stores, and sells data using [[Hollerith card (nonfiction)|punched cards]] which he has modified to acts as random-access, read-write devices, typically with one or more steganographic encryption channels. High-end cards may incorporate [[artificial intelligence (nonfiction)]] -- or perhaps smarter demons. | ||
His methods are secret, but assumed to involved the [[Gnomon algorithm]], [[Demon (nonfiction)|demons]], or both. | His methods are secret, but assumed to involved the [[Gnomon algorithm]], [[Demon (nonfiction)|demons]], or both. | ||
Technically, he functions as an [[owner-operated transdimensional corporation]], but he prefers to call himself "an ordinary guy doing his job". | |||
He is also a gunslinger, less by choice than necessity. | He is also a gunslinger, less by choice than necessity. | ||
Hollerith and [[Havelock]] are friends and allies. Both tend to reside in frontier towns, often the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. | Hollerith and [[Havelock]] are friends and allies. Both tend to reside in frontier towns, and travel between them when not residing, often during the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. | ||
== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
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* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | * [[Gnomon algorithm]] | ||
* [[Havelock]] - friend and colleague. | * [[Havelock]] - friend and colleague. | ||
* [[Ticketology]] | * [[Wwner-operated transdimensional corporation]] | ||
* [[Ticketology]] - the science, or pseudo-science, of punched cards and destiny. | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
Revision as of 17:43, 11 August 2016
Hollerith (? - ?) better known as "The Card Man", is a time traveller who trades in data.
In his role as The Card Man, he buys, stores, and sells data using punched cards which he has modified to acts as random-access, read-write devices, typically with one or more steganographic encryption channels. High-end cards may incorporate artificial intelligence (nonfiction) -- or perhaps smarter demons.
His methods are secret, but assumed to involved the Gnomon algorithm, demons, or both.
Technically, he functions as an owner-operated transdimensional corporation, but he prefers to call himself "an ordinary guy doing his job".
He is also a gunslinger, less by choice than necessity.
Hollerith and Havelock are friends and allies. Both tend to reside in frontier towns, and travel between them when not residing, often during the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
- Demon (nonfiction)
- Gnomon algorithm
- Havelock - friend and colleague.
- Wwner-operated transdimensional corporation
- Ticketology - the science, or pseudo-science, of punched cards and destiny.