Timeline for How to convey how much computing power has grown since the 1960s?
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| Aug 23, 2017 at 13:28 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 9, 2017 at 12:42 | comment | added | 8bittree | @freedomn-m Strange allegory. The relative lack of improvement in travel time in space parallelizes the exponential growth in computing power? Space travel improvements like those in your comment will be brought about by unpredictable, revolutionary changes in propulsion, not by steady, evolutionary improvements like computers have enjoyed. | |
| Aug 9, 2017 at 8:11 | comment | added | fdomn-m | @8bittree no, it's an allegory. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 22:53 | comment | added | 8bittree | @freedomn-m So, faster-than-light transportation technology is going to be invented within the next 35 years? Travel time in space has not experienced regular massive improvements like processor performance has. It took months to reach Mars in the 70s, it takes months to reach Mars today. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 14:36 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | The Human Genome Project is a real-life example for this phenomenon. What used to be the work of years can now be done in what? A few days? | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 10:31 | comment | added | Lee F | @freedomn-m this assumes that there will be a civilization capable of building an interstellar craft in 35 years time, so in this case it might be favourable to launch a craft now and get there in 40 years :) | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 16:28 | comment | added | fdomn-m | And this is why we don't have interstellar craft (well, one reason...) - the same principle: if we left today and it took 40 years to get there, we could instead leave in 35 years time and it only take 3 years to get there. | |
| Aug 5, 2017 at 18:42 | comment | added | ItamarG3 | Welcome to Computer Science Educators! This is an interesting comparison. I hope we'll be hearing more great content from you. | |
| Aug 5, 2017 at 18:39 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 5, 2017 at 18:36 | history | answered | harakim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |