Sunday, February 18, 2007
Yesterday the wife bought a 4GB USB jump drive for under $60. She also bought a 2GB SD card for her camera for under $40.
Back in 1980 I bought two 2114 1k x 4-bit chips (to make 1KB) for 10 pounds ($20, or thereabouts). I can now store about a million times more stuff for the same number of dollars. Adjusting for inflation, it's probably ten million times more stuff for the same constant dollars.
(Cue the stories about trudging from home to school and back through snow, uphill both ways, with barbed wire shoes to keep purchase on the ice, and *liking* it.)
(Or don't)
On that basis, I fully expect human consciousness executing in silicon (or something better) in the next quarter century.
Back in 1980 I bought two 2114 1k x 4-bit chips (to make 1KB) for 10 pounds ($20, or thereabouts). I can now store about a million times more stuff for the same number of dollars. Adjusting for inflation, it's probably ten million times more stuff for the same constant dollars.
(Cue the stories about trudging from home to school and back through snow, uphill both ways, with barbed wire shoes to keep purchase on the ice, and *liking* it.)
(Or don't)
On that basis, I fully expect human consciousness executing in silicon (or something better) in the next quarter century.
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