In this interview, Jim Gray talks about how storage capacity has exceeded Moore's Law and asserts that "programmers have to start thinking of the disk as a sequential device rather than a random access device". Believe it or not.
A Conversation with Jim GrayWhat on earth is all this storage being used for?
Last year, Berkeley reported on the explosion of production of new information that is taking place in the world.
UC Berkeley professors measure exploding world production of new informationOn a lighter note, here's a true testament to Moore's Law: classic 80's video games -- only this time, running in a web browser (with Flash).
The study has, for the first time, used "terabytes" as a common standard of measurement to compare the size of information in all media, linking and interpreting research reports from industry and academia. This standard makes it possible to compare growth trends for different media using one universal standard. The numbers in the UC Berkeley report are mindboggling. The world's total yearly production of print, film, optical, and magnetic content would require roughly 1.5 billion gigabytes of storage. This is the equivalent of 250 megabytes per person for each man, woman, and child on earth.
Love the link to the 80s games. That the Sidekick came with Space Invaders was the clincher for me to get it.
Posted by: Mark Finnern | February 18, 2004 at 14:05