Good literature in the future will assume that a search engine is available, just like we assume pocket calculators are available to the everyday user. (goodereader.com)
That happened with pocket calculators in classrooms in the 1980s, and connected multimedia mobile devices are now cheaper (in real terms) and far more powerful than calculators were then. (educationworld.com)
Perhaps Gary ran the RTE calculations through a pen and paper / pocket calculator model like so many others have done. (scienceofdoom.com)