On: How My Brain Kept Me from Co-Founding YouTube

[yan]

What's funny is that I now have a similar fear of 1TB drives.. "If a lone drive fails, that is a lot of data to go at once"

[buugs → yan]

Both the fears seem pretty reasonable to me, probably because I usually don't buy a main harddrive with more than 200gb usually no more than 120.

[10ren → buugs]

I started coding on a ZX81 with 16K RAM.

In 2 years, that will be 30 years ago. If RAM doubles every 1.5 years, then in 2 years a new machine should have 16G RAM (x1,000,000). At the moment they have about 4GB, so it's not far off.

[ovi256 → 10ren]

You can already buy MacPro's with 32GB of Ram. For about 8k$ unfortunately.

[10ren → ovi256]

You could also buy 32KB RAM for a ZX81 - but it felt a little out of reach. It was expensive, unusual, non-standard.

The thing is, 16GB RAM will soon be ordinary. Every PC will have it. What things become possible that are unthinkable today? Maybe multiple virtualized OSes could become standard.