Tuesday, October 17, 2006

YouTube - Flashback 1981

YouTube - Flashback 1981
I was born in 1981, and based on this "Flashback", so was my destiny as a computer geek. It seems that sometimes even CBS can get in a story that's accurate, to the point and even prophetic... at least in 1981.




Monday, October 16, 2006

Wired 14.10: The Information Factories

Wired 14.10: The Information Factories

From mainframe to pc, from pc to datacenter from datacenter to ...

This extensive article discusses the current evolution of computing power and what new tricks the big players are using to keep up with an every growing demand for computer power, storage, memory access and later the ability of the network to keep everything tied together efficiently. It looks like in another 10 years, the pendulum of computing will swing again, as the phases of the pendulum grow shorter upon each swing.