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In the future, it's quite likely that a standards organization could afford it. Processor speed, disk capacity, network bandwidth, and available software are a
by chunkbot 16y ago
In the future, it's quite likely that a standards organization could afford it.
Processor speed, disk capacity, network bandwidth, and available software are all growing much more rapidly than online populations.
In some years' time I might be able to run an operation like Google, Facebook, or Twitter from my bedroom.
- eru 16y agoThe current Google perhaps, but not the Google of the future.
- chunkbot 16y agoI'm not sure I want the Google of the future.
- qq66 16y agoThere are theoretical lower bounds on the amount of heat generated by the kind of information processing that Google does, and this heat needs to come from energy sources, which are growing more scarce as software/bandwidth/disk capacity/CPU speed grows. Google is the largest non-manufacturing electricity buyer in the world and would never fit in any bedroom :)