256MB RAM? How extravagant! My first computer had 3kB. This is just the nature of “induced demand”. We might expand the power of our computers by several order

256MB RAM? How extravagant! My first computer had 3kB. This is just the nature of “induced demand”. We might expand the power of our computers by several orders of magnitude, but our imaginations don’t keep up, so we find other ways of using all that capacity.