How many people on this forum have actually progammed with punch cards, used a teletype to communicate with a computer that had 2 KB of RAM, or got an error message from the mainframe of a major Canadian University because the program they wrote required over 2 MB (the total memory capacity of the mainframe)? I have. To put things into prespective a punchcard holds 80 bytes, and an 8in floppy holds 80 Kilobytes. Now today does it make any significant diffrence in the cost of sending an email that has an 80 byte or 80 kilobyte message? 50 years ago sending an 80 byte message over the telegraph network would cost around 10 USD (in todays dollars), while the other hand sending an 80 kilobyte telegram would have cost around 10,000 USD in todays dollars.
Actual wisdom on the nature of change and humanity doesn't go out of style!
It also takes decades to earn. Who knew? I think that the "old men" of today who have witnessed the entire rise of computers from the single-byte age to modern times are some of the most valuable resources on the planet. Having grown up in the 80's right as computers really hit the fun part of their exponential curve I feel about half as wise as you, and I can appreciate your perspective on how things might play out in the future. You have seen the top minds of each decade repeatedly spout off nonsense about "how things really are" only to soon be silence by the march of technology and connectivity.
lol this reminds me of my old college professor telling us about the IBM XXXX units he'd have to replace with like a ton of ESD protection.
He went "now in my day, hard drives literally 'crashed' " referring to the read head actually colliding with the surface of the drive every so often.
Now, there's solid state ftw.