[kridsdale3]

As much as we can plot out and understand exponential growth curves, I'm pretty sure people in 2005 would still be shocked to hear about GPUs with hundreds of gigs of RAM, with bandwidths around a Tbps, and not just one per server, but hundreds of industrial greenhouse sized buildings with a million of them, each, consuming entire nuclear plants of generation output.

Also you could blow their minds with a 24 TB HDD. It's as nuts as telling a 2024 person about a 1 PB HDD in a regular PC.

[jcgrillo]

2005 was when Kurzweil was trying to tell everyone we'd have artificial hemoglobin nanobots that would allow us to swim around under water for an hour on one breath, based on the exponential growth of.. who knows what.

Also in 2005 IIRC we were still expecting to eventually hit 10GHz/core, but my recollection is hazy that dream might have been quashed by then. The point is, the wild overestimates of techno-progress aren't anything new.

[jodrellblank]

Here's 9Ghz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSUlvaE6N1U

[jcgrillo]

That's impressive! Doesn't run for very long at that rate haha