On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Moore’s Law isn’t a mythical beast that magically materialized in 1965 >> and threatens to unpredictably vanish at any moment. In fact, it’s >> part of a broader ancient mechanism that has no intention of >> stopping. This mechanism, which I call cost gravity, pulls down the >> price of technology by about half every two years. > > Add to that the fact that cost=money ultimately comes from money=effort > eg currencies like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_Hours > (maybe even dolour → dollar though thats not the official etymology) > and its clear that there is a ripple effect of technology breaking down > old castles. Pleasant to the* layman, unpleasant to those professionals whose > fiefdoms are threatened.
The price of technology to the end user, yes. Anyone can go out and buy a computer that's powerful enough to do everything the typical person needs, and it's cheap enough to fit inside the typical person's budget. (Compare early IBM estimates of maybe half a dozen computer sales worldwide.) That has nothing to do with whether or not that person can create that computer. Same goes for software. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
