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- Applegate, K A: Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill (Ax)
- "Someday, when I am too old to be a warrior, I will write a book
about humans and their strange habits and speech and technology. For example, did you know
that humans invented books before computers? Because of this they believe
computers to be superior, despite the very obvious fact that it takes one of their
computers as much as thirty seconds to "load" a page, while a book page can be
accessed with zero effective delay."
- K.A.Applegate, (1998), Animorphs#18 - The Decision, p37.
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- Asimov, I. : The Fun they had".
- On the page headed May 17, 2157, she wrote, "Today Tommy found a
real book!"
They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read
words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to - on a screen, you
know. And then, when they turned back to the page before, it had the same words on it that
it had had when they read it the first time.
Gee," said Tommy, "what a waste. When you're through with the book, you just
throw it away, I guess.
- - Isaac Asimov. from Earth is Room Enough © 1955 by King-Size
Publications Inc..
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- Clarke, A.C: Newspads in 2001
- Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from
Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines
of any newspaper he pleased. The text was a updated automatically on every hour; even if
one read only the English versions one could spend an entire lifetime doing nothing but
absorb the ever changing flow of information from the news satellites.
- Arthur C Clarke from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ch 9:
Moon Shuttle,Inner Cirle Books Ltd London, 1968.
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- Clarke, A.C: Binary exponential growth
- "And what," asked Katerina plaintively
,'is a von Neumann machine? Explain, please'...
'Suppose you had a very big engineering job to do, Katerina - and I mean big, like strip
mining the entire face of a moon. You could build millions of machines to do it, but it
might take centuries. If you were clever enough you would make just one machine - but with
the ability to reproduce itself from the raw materials around it. So you'd start a chain
reaction, and in a very short time, you'd have got... bred enough machines to do the job
in decades, instead of a millennia. ...
'Yes: exponentiating machines.'...
'And these living machines are eating Jupiter!'...
In fact, it's a perfect example of the old population explosion you doctors at were always
screaming about in the last century. Zagadka reproduces every two hours. So in
only 20 hours there will be 10 doublings. One Zagadka will have become a
thousand.
'One-thousand and twenty-four,' said Chandra.
- Arthur C Clarke from 2010: Odyssey Two, Ch
49: Devourer of Worlds, Granada Publishing London, 1982.
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- Gates, B. : Cost of a computer
- "The statistics show that the cost of computing has decreased 10
million fold since 1971. That's the equivalent of getting a Boeing 747 for the price of a
pizza"
Bill Gates (1997).
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- Hughes, M. P. (1999, Dec):
The amount of information required to describe a
person
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If each atom is considered a cube 0.1nm (nanometer) across, a human body
would be made up of approximately 10^29 atoms. If you wanted to
reconstruct a human you would need to store information about each atom,
its charge state, which others it's connected to and its EXACT location.
That's an extremely large amount of information...
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- Lewis, Peter H., "With Two New Chips, the Gigahertz Decade Begins"
- IBM is working to create the Power4 processor system that combines several 1 GHz processors on a single chip. The Power4 will be able to transfer as much data in one second as is contained in 20 full-length DVD movies and has the potential to dramatically increase the performance and capabilities of servers.
Lewis, Peter H., "With Two New Chips, the Gigahertz Decade Begins" New York Times (03/09/00) P. E1;
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- McNealy,S. : Privacy
- You have zero privacy; get over it
Scott McNealy, (2000, Jan) CEO Sun Microsystems
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- Moore, G. : Moore's Law
- In 1965 Gordon Moore, a Fairchild Semiconductor engineer, noted that the
number of transistors on a chip doubled every 18 to 24 months. He founded Intel in 1969)
- Corollary: For a constant cost microprocessor speed also doubles at the
same rate.
- Has withheld for more than 30 years.1969 Intel produced the 4-bit, 104KHz
4004 with 2,300 transistors, for a Japanese calculator, 1998 The Pentium II, 450MHz 32-bit
processor with 7.5 million transistors is 233,000 times faster than the 4004.
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- Rowe, G. : Network technologies.
- "All technologies are stop -gap
technologies"
Graeme Rowe, Telecom NZ, Computerworld NZ Nov 15
1999
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- Slitz, J. : Mainframes
- "A lot of people have been saying that the mainframe systems are
dead, but mainframes are the most robust set of dead people you have ever seen"
John Slitz IBM, Computerworld NZ Aug 1997
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