IP: COMPUTING'S STRIDES COMING EXPONENTIALLY

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 08:05:08 -0800 (PST)
> From: Dan Gillmor <dgillmor () sjmercury com>
> To: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: today's column
>
> http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg031900.htm
>
> COMPUTING'S STRIDES COMING EXPONENTIALLY
>
>
>   PICTURE the jaded technology watcher, contemplating a slew of
> announcements in recent days.
>
>   Ho-hum, he mumbles, when he hears that IBM is selling a
> personal-computer disk drive capable of storing 75 gigabytes, or 75,000
> megabytes, of data.
>
>   That's nice, he muses idly, when Intel and Advanced Micro Devices start
> selling microprocessors that have broken the 1-gigahertz, or
> 1,000-megahertz, speed barrier.
>
>   About time, he thinks, when telecommunications companies launch a price
> war for digital subscriber line (DSL) data connections that let consumers
> load Web pages at many times the speed of today's dial-up modems.
>
>   This unenlightened fellow is me -- until I look ahead a few years and
> start adding, or maybe multiplying, some of this progress together.