momus_98
join:2002-09-10
Pflugerville, TX
|  The future beckons
I think this is fascinating. I'd love to come back 200 years from now to see how technology has advanced, specifically in the areas of medicine and computer tech.
Companies like IBM developing a processor that uses light pulses (See IBM Research) is very intriguing to me.
We have dual- and now quad-core processors, IBM's Cell processor, and AMD's announcement of an 8 core processor due in 2009 is very exciting.
Technology is accelerating at faster levels than it has previously, if you ask me. If I had mentioned 1TB consumer-level hard drives 6 months ago, you would've declared me to be a fruitcake. Now they're widely available (albeit quite expensive for the time being), but the point is they exist!
Flash drives are now up to 32 GB. It's enough to boggle the mind.
So bravo to BroadbandReports for passing along this story. The future looks to be compelling.
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james
join:2001-02-26
antarctica
| said by momus_98  :If I had mentioned 1TB consumer-level hard drives 6 months ago, you would've declared me to be a fruitcake. While I agree with you for the most part, I had to point out that about 6 months ago Seagate introduced a new 1TB hard drive for the consumer market. And 12 months ago Hitachi introduced the "Deskstar 7K1000" which as you can guess also had 1tb. So if anyone had called you a fruitcake, they would have been a cup of cherries short of a fruitcake themselves...
But yes, technology accelerating at an amazing pace. I never thought I'd have 4 gigs of ram, let alone 8. |
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