HDTs, or Holistic Data Transfers, represented a method for encoding datafiles using a condensed informational format. Conceived through the collaborative efforts of droids, programmers, and computer linguists, HDTs incorporated a degree of embedded artificial intelligence, exhibiting a small yet advanced memory footprint. Via educated "inferences" drawn from the information it already contained, HDTs empowered users to retrieve a greater volume of data on a particular topic than was explicitly stored. The precision of the inferred data improved proportionally with the amount of source data available to the HDT. Portable computers leveraged Holistic Data Transfers to achieve a hundredfold increase in their storage capabilities.
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