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When the gap between thing-happening and you-knowing collapses to almost nothing.
means Data or systems that process and respond instantly, as events occur, rather than after a delay.
from From early computing in the 1950s, when most machines ran in batch mode — you fed in punch cards and waited hours. Real-time meant the rare luxury of a computer keeping pace with the actual clock, fast enough to control live processes like radar or flight systems.
Not literalTrue instant is impossible; latency just shrinks below human notice.
Hard vs softPacemakers cannot lag; chat apps forgivably can.
Origin fieldCoined for military control and tracking systems.