5mb harddrive 50+ years ago

[#number6ix#]

Just imagine how things will be 50 years from now

[Budadiiii]

Just imagine how things will be 50 years from now

I will be immortal.

I will survive. I don't see anyway I don't live forever.

My spirit is too strong.

[RedBlackAttack]

to be honest there really wasn't much worth saving 50 years ago....

porn.

[outbreak]

porn.

In all seriousness it's the porn industry that has dictated which technologies have succeeded in the past.

[Draz]

Hologram iPads in the future. I see that shit coming. iPad 8 with holographic feature and a real life Siri.

[highwhey]

The opposite is true actually. Computer technology growth is slowing down though.

i forgot the fellas name but he claimed computing power would double every year or 2, something like that. while computer have followed that trajectory for the most part, i think companies like intel are squeezing every little bit of power from current technology, intel released the 22nm ivy bridge in 2012, yet in 2913 haswell, also a 22nm cpu was released and it was marginally better. FAR from double the performance. so yeah, technology growth has slowed down massively, and that poster has a point, silicon has limitations as far as size goes. the only thing that they double with each cpu release is transistor count, which never translates into double the performance or near that. most benchmarks are cherrypicked anyhow, so that 30% haswell performance increase over sandy bridge is utter bs 99% of the time

[gigantes]

Just imagine how things will be 50 years from now

humans long-since extinct, and the only thriving ecosystems based around sulfurous hydrothermal vents?

thanks a lot, asshole.

[KevinNYC]

PBS did a show on how in the late 50's Silicon Valley was born when 8 guys left their company to strike on on their own and form Fairchild Semiconductor, one of whom who go on to found Intel. This was really unheard of back then.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe...ilicon/player/

Pretty interesting. They made the point, that when computer were vacumn tube based, they used to have a guy walking around inside the computer replacing the old tubes.

One thing I didn't know was that Standford University had very early on, put aside great parcels of land to for companies to build on. Without this the cost of starting a new computer might have been too high.

Check out this map of all the companies connected to these 8 guys.
http://s1.wp.com/wp-content/themes/v...fairchild.html

Use the slider on the bottom to change the map.

[rufuspaul]

In all seriousness it's the porn industry that has dictated which technologies have succeeded in the past.

3-D holographic porn would be scary. You'd have to duck during the money shot.

[Bandito]

Hologram iPads in the future. I see that shit coming. iPad 8 with holographic feature and a real life Siri.

I could see a drop in birth rate if that happens...

[B-hoop]

i forgot the fellas name but he claimed computing power would double every year or 2, something like that. while computer have followed that trajectory for the most part, i think companies like intel are squeezing every little bit of power from current technology, intel released the 22nm ivy bridge in 2012, yet in 2913 haswell, also a 22nm cpu was released and it was marginally better. FAR from double the performance. so yeah, technology growth has slowed down massively, and that poster has a point, silicon has limitations as far as size goes. the only thing that they double with each cpu release is transistor count, which never translates into double the performance or near that. most benchmarks are cherrypicked anyhow, so that 30% haswell performance increase over sandy bridge is utter bs 99% of the time

Moore's Law states that proccessing capacity doubles every 2 years, it has been true for the last 30 something years. Its true that silicon-based chips are reaching the maximum level of performance, but there are already other different technologies being developed to replace them like carbon nanotubes which is being developed by IBM.

Computers have exponentially raised the amount of new technology discovered since more and more complex models can be built. And btw transistor count does double performance, problem is most software programming doesnt correctly use the quad-processors chips around.

[tmacattack33]

The problem with current technology is that there is not much more room for improvement. Nice find OP

Nah, just look at futuristic movies for inspiration.

A lot of that sh*t would be awesome and can actually happen.

[highwhey]

Moore's Law states that proccessing capacity doubles every 2 years, it has been true for the last 30 something years. Its true that silicon-based chips are reaching the maximum level of performance, but there are already other different technologies being developed to replace them like carbon nanotubes which is being developed by IBM.

Computers have exponentially raised the amount of new technology discovered since more and more complex models can be built. And btw transistor count does double performance, problem is most software programming doesnt correctly use the quad-processors chips around.

i do remember reading about the carbon nanotubes years ago, pretty cool to know they are being tested on since we're closely approaching the limitation of silicon.

i realize with personal computers bottlenecks exist with other components as well but why isnt progamming being improved then? most people will find a greater increase in performance by upgrading to an ssd hard drive then a cpu upgrade.

[B-hoop]

i do remember reading about the carbon nanotubes years ago, pretty cool to know they are being tested on since we're closely approaching the limitation of silicon.

i realize with personal computers bottlenecks exist with other components as well but why isnt progamming being improved then? most people will find a greater increase in performance by upgrading to an ssd hard drive then a cpu upgrade.

Probably a question of education and knowledge not keeping up with physical evolution in proccessing capability. I really believe that most programmers don't even know how to use the most advanced technology available so they just do what they have been trained all life to do, which can be really time and energy consuming compared to what they could be doing.

[Dresta]

http://www.businessinsider.com/pictu...irplane-2014-1




Today, you can buy a 5TB 600gram hard-drive for $150 versus that 5MB 2,000 pound hard-drive for $3000 a day on rent. Hard to believe how much technology changes in 50 years.

Alas, the planes are still pretty much the same . This cheap storage space just means its far easier for the state to spy on everybody, so its about time they started making some faster ****ing planes.