The fact that I can just within the last year buy a $200 256GB SD memory card to plug into my RPi in lieu of any need for other non-volatile storage, and that I

The fact that I can just within the last year buy a $200 256GB SD memory card to plug into my RPi in lieu of any need for other non-volatile storage, and that I can move all my primary servers and repos onto it, or indeed that the RPi exists and appears with significant speed bumps for essential constant size and price and mean power consumption, shows that lots of innovation is still happening and at a pace. I've been in electronics and computing ~40Y, and worked with some moderately big iron on the way, eg in banking. That iPhone has more oomph by orders of magnitude than an oil company's exploration division had not so many years ago. I worked there and looked after the machines.