Monday, January 03, 2011

Time Marches On

Since I have some expertise in this area, I am always interested in examples that show how far we have come in the computer age. I just saw a jaw dropping example on the cost of storage.

Cost of 1TB of hard disk storage (bear in mind that there probably wasn't this much storage in the world at the time)

2011: About $60.
1955: $1 trillion

Cost of 4GB of storage:
2011: $10 (USB Drive)
1955: $32 billion

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