i suppose it is obvious that the less expensive a computer becomes, the more of them we will have but i think it is something we need to remind ourselves every once in a while
this comes from a great presentation that Mary Meeker gave at Web 2.0 yesterday
Humans and resource excess seem to go hand in hand. Much like the brains inside our skulls, we’re increasingly possessing more MIPS than we humanly know what to do with. It is interesting that, in this respect, we’ve created a willingness to pay for something we’ve always had for free. With all this new found capacity for computation, it could follow that we as a society progress in larger leaps and bounds to meet our basic needs, but as the white annotations on the big bubble indicate, the prevailing focus on progress seems targeted at meeting and extending our entertainment needs rather than foster the common good. Our vices collectively dominate our value creation and resource exploitation.
