Computing 2001 “Prediction is hard. Especially the future . . .” Yogi Berra, philosopher in the Baseball Hall of Fame
Processors increase at 60% per year ... parallelism 100
Continue quadrupling memory every 3 years
- 1K chip in 72 becomes 1 gigabit chip (128 Mbyte) in 2002
On-line 12-25 Gigabytes; $10 1-Gbyte floppies & CDs
Radio links for untethered computing