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Enrique
(27,461 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)that such computing power is possible.
I know 50 years ago if you told some well educated person in electrical engineering that it would happen you would probably get a big laugh.
But here it is....and it may be old technology next year.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)Basically, what this means is, more space, more computing power, better computers. Your 2 year old computer technically has been put to dust by a new computer. This is going to be exponential.
What does that mean for the next 50 years? 100 years? Basically, future technologies will literally blow our minds (assuming we don't blow ourselves up first with nukes).
15 years ago, the very concept of YouTube probably would have been laughed at. I could picture the inventors of YouTube pitching their idea, and people saying that it was both impossible and would never catch on.
Did you know that Bill Gates once said that "No one will need more than 637 kilobytes of memory for a personal computer." Inexpensive memory now runs from 2 Gigabytes to 4 Gigabytes. 2 Gigabytes = 2.097,152 kilobytes, or ~3300 X more memory than Bill Gates said we would ever need.
The normal hard drive now has around 1 Terabyte of space on it. In the future, prepare to see 10 TB --> 30 TB --> 100 TB --> 500 TB --> 1 Petabyte --> 1 Exabyte. (1 Exabyte = 1,048,576 Terrabytes = 1.12589991 × 10^15 Kilobytes), all on your own personal computer!
edcantor
(325 posts)I'm wondering if the average person really needs more than a terabyte or two ever in his/her lifetime, unless, of course, they are making high dynamic range music videos. In which case, use the cloud or Youtube instead of a larger memory drive
Dash87
(3,220 posts)In the future, one video might hog 1 TB of data, for example (but be of ridiculously good quality). There's also unseen changes and advances that will require more data.
If you're wondering about now, though, probably not. Depends what they want to do with the computer, like you said.
MattBaggins
(7,894 posts)4K 100+ megapixel 3D movie cameras will be at walmart in 5 years tops. Family vacation to Disney World will fill up a terabyte.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)hunter
(38,264 posts)In the case of YouTube, the percentage is probably worse.
Some days I think YouTube is a space alien project to repel intelligent life forms -- a lighthouse of sorts, a warning of earth's dangerous shores.
DO NOT LAND HERE! THE STUPID, IT BURNS!
KG
(28,749 posts)with crowd noises and vertigo inducing movement as a bonus. and what's funny is the 'wow, that's great!' comments...
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)edcantor
(325 posts)filmed the illusion the following day and submitted the footage to youtube. They were very happy with the results.
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