On 7/14/09, Preben Randhol <rand...@pvv.org> wrote: >> absurdity stems from the unintuitive laws of quantum mechanics, not >> from the novelty of the technology, it won't change over time. > > perhaps not intuitively, but I also remember an IBM boss claiming 5 > computers would be sufficient for the world back in the good ol' days.
actually that is a hoax, thomas j watson probably never said it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_misquote > Another boss claiming 640kb was enough for everybody... > > Some years back 1Gb was enormously large. In 5 years 500Tb will > probably be closer to standard ;-) these are misjudgments of possibilities i believe that quantum mechanics will be as absurd in 2020 as it was in 1920
