The anniversary of the moon landing is a great reminder of how it messes with your expectations to be on a "we thought it was exponential!" technology curves when it flattens out, as is happening with computers today. I gave a whole talk about this! https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm …
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Also — I/O bandwidth, cost, transaction rate and storage space is still going exponential. It just took a step back in some ways with the shift to SSD. The constant is a lower than before, sure.
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And yet somehow I still mainly use it for email, word processing and Minesweeper.
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