Wow. It took practically forever to have 500GB and 1TB HDDs.. and in only a few years, we'll have 512GB SSDs... too bad they won't be in the same price bracket for another decade or two.
I wouldn't talk about 10-20 years time in computing if I were you. the advances between 1988-2008 were almost unthinkable - not only that but the RATE of advance is ever increasing... It's been predicted that between 2030-2050, we'll have AI at human level (or greater).
Yeah, I think it's better to measure growth starting from those 16MB smartmedia cards or something. It's gone this far this quickly just because there's been a tipping point of commercial viability, the tech's mostly been there for a while.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Wow. It took practically forever to have 500GB and 1TB HDDs.. and in only a few years, we'll have 512GB SSDs... too bad they won't be in the same price bracket for another decade or two.
I wouldn't talk about 10-20 years time in computing if I were you. the advances between 1988-2008 were almost unthinkable - not only that but the RATE of advance is ever increasing... It's been predicted that between 2030-2050, we'll have AI at human level (or greater).
Yeah, I think it's better to measure growth starting from those 16MB smartmedia cards or something. It's gone this far this quickly just because there's been a tipping point of commercial viability, the tech's mostly been there for a while.
not to mention the same preformance for another.. several more decades after that