This morning I read this article from the San Jose Mercury News. It says that soon there will be as much as 50,000 to 100,000 gigabits of data per square inch! If that comes true just imagine the possibilities. It won't take much more than a small room to store all of the experience of a lifetime (a petabyte, according to Arthur C. Clarke).
Furthermore, the implications are incredible! What would happen to national security? People would be able to carry every secret of an entire country in something smaller than a wallet! I'd like to see the ECHELON monitor that! This stuff is way more serious than mp3s and huge programs... it would revolutionize the computer age! Fiber optics would only be good for real time data. Anyone who *really* wanted to transfer a lot of data would send a square inch hard drive by snail mail for 33 cents! This is way cool stuff!
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Imagine one of thos zipping through the basement! Totally cool!!:-)
Once again this just goes to show how totally cool the Woz is if he can lay the basis in 1980 for all of the Mac OS's to come. Let's here it for the WOZ!
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Furthermore, the implications are incredible! What would happen to national security? People would be able to carry every secret of an entire country in something smaller than a wallet! I'd like to see the ECHELON monitor that! This stuff is way more serious than mp3s and huge programs... it would revolutionize the computer age! Fiber optics would only be good for real time data. Anyone who *really* wanted to transfer a lot of data would send a square inch hard drive by snail mail for 33 cents! This is way cool stuff!
Once again this just goes to show how totally cool the Woz is if he can lay the basis in 1980 for all of the Mac OS's to come. Let's here it for the WOZ!