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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Anne & Lynn Wheeler
>
> [email protected] (Mullen, Patrick) writes:
> > Isn't this a bit like saying that because the price of the chips in a
> > 1990 Lexus vs those in a 2014 Lexus has dropped by a factor of (say)
> > 1000, a 2014 Lexus should cost $50?
> >
> > Silly analogy I know, but more seriously, what proportion of the
> > current $33M does go to pay for the chips?
>
> re:
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#11 Demonstrating Moore's law
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#12 Demonstrating Moore's law
>
>
> forty years of moore's law
> http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2002244366_moorelaw18.html
>
> "If the automobile industry moved this fast, your car would move at a million
> miles per hour and it
> would get 50,000 miles per gallon," said Moore, 76, in a recent press
> conference.
>
> ... snip ...
>
> ... and cost only $50
Hmmm.... Might "3D Printing" be a precursor to Star Trek's "Replicator"
technology? That could render just about everything "free". But then many
would need bigger closets....
-jc-
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