Sunlight, reflected from gigantic, computer-controlled mirrors, spills through them during the day, giving the building an ethereal glow.
In one of the many marijuana-fueled conversations in this tedious, overstuffed novel, the hero Perkus Tooth asserts that it's "common knowledge we could be living in a gigantic computer simulation unawares".
The gigantic computer displays tacked on buildings in Times Square, along the strip in Las Vegas and at sports stadiums around the world generally use light-emitting diodes, but at best they offer very low resolution.
But the staff of the gigantic computer, furniture and supermarket shops were soon proven correct, as the few patrons of Paperclip World turned out to be mainly shoplifters who took advantage of the loose paperclip pick'n'mix counter, which Mr Dandfleece had thought would be his salvation.
Don't have a gigantic, computer controlled saw?
It is really interesting under this environment to read these scientists/mathematicians and realize how fortunate we are in the gigantic computer age.
But most intriguingly, the universe might be a gigantic computer of sorts and the numbers might represent the calculations it has done so far.
In Douglas Adams's sci-fi classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Earth is a gigantic computer constructed to calculate the meaning of life.
He enjoys currency trading -- his home office has four gigantic computer screens on which he trades; it looks like the lair of a low budget super villain.
In the nineteen-seventies, NASA set up gigantic mainframe computers to help make sense of the data, using basic signal-matching algorithms.
