Muddies Point Slide # 18 states that 5,609,121 terabytes of information was produced in 2002, is this is the statistic for the United States alone, and if so I was wondering what the global total would be?
Computer Hardware:
-physical parts, not software
-infrequently changed
-embedded system not normally seen by users (unless you are one of those people that build their own computers, which I respect but probably would not ever have the patience to do)
-motherboard- body, mainframe, CPU
-RAM=random access memory
-one has internal and external devices
-Input includes; text, mouse, video, and audio
-Output includes; images, video, audio
Moore’s Law:
-Moore’s Law- the trend in the development and history of computer hardware
-there is a direct correlation between the increase in transistors and time, showing a continual progression in the progress of computer hardware, term coined in 1970 by professor Carver Mead
-“ Moore's law describes this driving force of technological and social change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries”
-Moore’s second law, capital cost of a semiconductor fab also increase exponentially over time
Video:
-should continue for a few “chip” generations and may continue in new directions
-challenges of this continual increase could be parameter variation and leakage currents
-not law of nature, technological trend
-in only four decades, very impressive compared to things like cars (“sofa change”….haha)
-constant doubling
-2015, paper clip size cell phones
Computer History Museum:
-has current exhibits on the silicon engine, internet history, selling the computer revolution, visible storage, and a timeline of computer history
-mission statement- “to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age.
-located in Mountain View California
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Hi John-
I'm glad I read your post, as I somehow missed the mission statement of the Computer History Museum when I visited their site. Isn't it great that they are preserving all of this information for our posterity? I particularly thought it was interesting to be able to click on any year to see what was developed/invented during that time, and to see what was new the year I was born. Did you see that part? Thanks!
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