Times are changing!

1. Derek Sine
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   1980 1 GB VS. 2009 1 GB

   Derek Sine
   Trails Ventures, LLC.

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. composite1
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   Derek,

   An even more dramatic example is the computers they used for the Moon Missions could have been replaced by my old Packard Bell 386 Laptop. My cellphone could have run the Apollo missions from both the '60's and '70's and if I remembered to put in my already outdated 4GB Micro SD card in it, the missions in the '80's would be fair game too!

   I remember watching "Terminator 2" and seeing the 'T-1000' and wondering how it could be done. Before I left the theater, I figured 'Molecular Circuitry' like DNA would be the way. Before the end of the '90's they were seriously experimenting with 'Nanites' (cellular sized robots.) That was then....

   H.Wolfgang Porter, Composite Media Producer
   Dreaded Enterprises Unlimited, Inc.
   http://www.dreadedenterprises.com

   Posted 1 year ago #

3. Derek Sine
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   Posted 1 year ago #

4. robGRAUERT
   Member

   

   What do you think comes next...ya know....after the computer. 

   It was a big deal when the US industrialized. Then computer technology took off. I wonder how ridiculous the next step will be.

   Rob Grauert, Jr
   http://www.robgrauert.com
   http://command-r.tumblr.com

   Posted 1 year ago #

5. pseudosafari
   Member

   

   Just imagine--some day, probably sooner than we think, we'll see posts here asking which camera is best for shooting from outer space.

   Posted 1 year ago #

6. birdcat
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   Hey Derek -

   You're making me feel old!  I worked on machines like you show above (started professionally on an IBM 360 in 1977).

   In fact, your digital watch is way more powerful than many of my early machines!

   Bruce Paul
   7Squared Productions
   http://www.7squared.com

   Posted 1 year ago #

7. anindya49
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   Quantum computers, for one. Some of my colleagues here at the University of British Columbia are actively involved in research on this topic: a lot of interesting ideas going around. Just this Friday I saw a paper which proposes a very practical implementation which can handle large scale computations.

   We are probably looking at hybrid systems: mostly classical with some quantum components accelerating certain computations.

   Posted 1 year ago #

8. XTR-91
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   It's amazing how the processing power that was able to sustain a moon mission (by the doubes) is incapable of running a good, solid PC system in terms of performing basic, and even sometimes vital, functions for running a computer. This comes to show how much operating systems have lagged toward ineffeciency (with mostly PCs). Microsoft often fails to see beyond the new features and gimmicks - stability has taken a back seat, particularly with the release of Windows ME, Vista, and just Windows in general, which they have improved in some regards during their release of Windows 7. If Microsoft finds this so difficult to accomplish, they do not comply (or even try to compete) with the way Apple regards these strategies.

   Posted 1 year ago #

9. grinner
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    feelin' old.

   I remember when renders (in Cosa AFter Effects) had to be done over the weekend and 9 gig drives took a day to stripe and mount for Avid use.

   http://grinnerhester.com

   Posted 1 year ago #

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