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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: Michael Rick who wrote (8390)10/6/1996 3:59:00 AM
From: Jeff Hayden   of 58324
 
Michael you said "Realistically, will required software memory space keep growing with the advancement in processor speeds and memory availability?"

I say memory requirements will grow for quite a bit longer than 10 years. The reason is to make the human interface easier and easier. In five years I expect we'll be able to just chat to the computer as the normal way of entering and asking for information. We can do it now, but it doesn't work well. It takes a lot of code and machine operations to process speech in real time, at normal voice speeds, from many different voices. Handwriting recognition obviously needs more work. One thing that's is likely to change is the keyboard, which will be reduced to an option. The computer will become useful even to people who can't read. To do this requires a lot of code, speed, and memory.

Will the internet take over handling the memory you'll need to do these things? I don't know, certainly it's not ready now, especially over a 28.8 modem. Some common memory services are provided in a company environment over the company's local networks, but hard disks are still used to hold a Mac/PC's software and local data.

I should hope someday I can get a 17"x22" PowerTablet from Apple on which I write with a pen and to which I can enter data by talking. I'd use this as a drafting board and artist's canvas. And then I can go back to my old ways of entering data to paper - drawing and writing while I'm hunkered over it in the middle of the Rocky Mountain National Park. I don't like being tied to my computer. I'd rather it could attend me when I want it. Note that a PowerTablet needs local storage.

Jeff

PS: If Intel has only a 800MHz machine in 2001 - It will be in the process of going out of business. Apple will be shipping Exponential's new 500MHz PPC chip by next summer. We should be seeing 2GHz, 256 bit wide machines in 2001.
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