Quick thoughts, shares, and interactions with the community. These are my digital breadcrumbs.
2025-07-25 · 15:19
I started coding and creating softwares back in 1992 (at 14 y.o.), at that time on #Amiga and with strange tools that no longer exist so no longer would allow anyone to build at that speed. But anyway.
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Back then, I was working on a 7 Mhz computer that had about 2-4 Mb of memory, 200-500 Mb of storage, and we were doing: word processing, sound editing, music editing, video editing was harder and needed more computing power (but it's the only difference that I think of), data processing, games, entertainment, etc. And softwares used to need 200-500Kb of memory in order to work, a couple of Mb of storage, took a couple of seconds to start (for the heaviest), and worked just fine!
Now, 30 years after that, everyone can see that: we now have computers that have close to a thousand times the frequency (5 Ghz), a million times the computing power (if you take into account CPU+GPU+...), more than a thousand times the memory and storage capacity (16 Gb of memory and 1 Tb of storage), etc... but they also consume a thousand times the memory (500 Mb instead of 500Kb, on a Chrome tab for example), a thousand times the storage, and so they also take a couple of second to start, and they achieve their deeds in exactly the same way, with no gain whatsoever, in a couple of seconds.
So is humanity progressing towards a goal (and if so, what is it?), or what is happening there?
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I can't wait to reach the year #2052, so that softwares who handle text and images at the same time (can you image?! how dare you) would with the same logic presumably consume: 5 Thz (amazing!), 16 Tb of memory (wooow!), a billion times the computing power (bazinga!), and terabytes of storage (at least!).
What a beautiful time to be living in! I can't wait to see all the #convoluted new ways people express themselves into #heavier and #slower softwares who do exactly the same thing as in 1992: words, sounds, images and videos.
How many layers of achieving absolutely #NOTHING could be added in before people start to realize that something's #wrong?
https://wiki.amigaos.net/w/images/f/f0/Abiword.png
https://wiki.amigaos.net/w/images/0/09/Audioevolution.gif
