> > > "Nobody ever needs mor the 1O^12 formulas in his dissertation" > > > > > :-) You know I won't do that. > > Bill was wrong on a similar occasion...
Yet Bill was talking about computers and expansion of technology that lives its own life, almost. And he didn't look into the history. Even in mid-70's the computers were long enough present on Earth for everybody who had a clue to know that storage was ever-growing. The whole 640kb thing was a very foolish thing for him to say. He thought of an evolving technology (characterized, amongst other things, by desktop memory sizes) as a frozen thing. We're talking about humans. Human life time expectation stays fixed when compared to storage size growth in last say 25 years of computer technology development. We don't even live that many seconds... Now, if the assumption is that we were eventually to live 31k years, then guess how useful is an equation you can type in one second... Even if computers did mind reading, which no doubt they will in the next 10k years or so, our brain is still a tad slow... We humans can usually cope with not more than one particular concept in a 2 second period, and this is not going to change unless somebody would implement our brains in a technology that's light years better than the sluggish ion-based propagation in our nerve cells. They propagate roughly a 100-thousand to a million times slower than light in vacuum... Have fun ;-) Cheers, Kuba Ober
