What the PC Industry of Tomorrow Looks Like

[longknife]

By Ben BajarinApril 29, 20130

We are, without question, an industry in transition. The 500-lb. gorillas who once dominated the technology industry are undergoing major transitions and experiencing new types of growing pains. And for many, this is extremely painful. These titans will rise or fall based solely on their ability to manage this transition and these new types of growing pains. So what’s growing, exactly? Opportunity.

Read more: What the PC Industry of Tomorrow Looks Like | TIME.com

It's amazing how far we've come since 1977 when the Altair 8800 came out. Our cell phones now have more memory than mainframes of that time!

 

[Underhill]

I can remember when my dad and I bought his first IBM PC. The salesman at the time was bragging that is had 20MB of hard drive space and, "Who would ever use more than 20MB?".

Today we have telephones with more than a thousand times that much memory.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Our Computers is one of the few area that turned out to be partly true. We just found out that pure power doesn't=intelligence. Thankfully with new tech coming over the past few years we're discovering how to get around that and advance on tech that thinks.

As for space and going 10,000 mph. well, that's a let down.