History and future trends:
The best summary of the history of information technologies is a
graph that shows the calculations per second per $1,000 from 1900 to
today. (Try Googling calculations per second per $1,000) What we see
when we look at these figures is exponential growth.
Up take of
the printing press took hundreds of years; uptake of the radio and TV
took decades; uptake of the computer and mobile phones took years. The
kitsch and yet astonishing comparison that is usually trotted out in
conversations like this is...
