On Feb 20, 7:14 am, [email protected] wrote: > From: [email protected] > Subj: Fwd: Did You Know? > SONY PLAYED THIS VIDEO AT THEIR EXECUTIVE CONFERENCE THIS YEAR.
That was kind of interesting. Some of the statistical data I knew made me skeptical of how "impressive" the other stuff was. For instance, starting with [several hundred] Internet devices in 1984 only serves to support the "exponential growth" model the video was trying to impress -- there wasn't even a public Internet until 1992 or so. I can come up with others: for instance, sSitting right next to me is a PIC18F252 chip -- it has more computing power than the TRS-80 Model III in the other room; the chip costs about $5 in unit quantities but the TRS-80 cost over $2,500 in 1986. On the other hand, the television in the bedroom would have worked just as well in 1950 as it does now ... er as of two days ago (not sure if any networks shut off their NTSC transmitters). Some facets of technology grow at seemingly astounding rates, but they are just a tiny fraction of everything else. Consider the other thread we had where although we can fit the Library of Congress on a flash drive, we still can't come up with a technology to replace Gutenberg's. But now I have to look at pictures of birds with human hands. http://tinyurl.com/bqv3zj ---Jason Olshefsky --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
