11 Dec
2014
11 Dec
'14
8:26 a.m.
Flash memory.
Tape -> floppy -> hard drives were evolutionary and the year-on-year compound
interest in volume stored is amazing, but only as seen over a decade or three. (Although,
seen from the perspective of a century, that?ll maybe look somewhat disruptive).
But, per power and volume, flash allows a real discontinuity in the amout of information I
can carry around with me. Pocket-sized GPS receivers *with a nationwide road map*
internal, gigantic music/video collections in a device the size of my palm, Raspberry Pi
and its ilk with a full-up modern OS including self-hosting in a device I can lose in the
bottom of a lunchbox - that?s a lot of information density, and the change from ?cabinet
size? to ?wristwatch size? was pretty sudden from my perspective.
On Dec 11, 2014, at 9:32 AM, Tor Arntsen <kspt.tor at gmail.com> wrote:
On 11 December 2014 at 14:59, Noel Chiappa <jnc at
mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
But among the big ones for me are electricity,
which almost has too many...
o Soap ...