Thursday, February 28, 2008
High Tech, 2008 vs. 1988
Here is a fantastic article comparing both prices (nominal and inflation-adjusted) and features of technology products now versus twenty years ago. I especially appreciate the features comparison, because even inflation-adjustment can't account for quality improvements. Despite the naysayers, the world just keeps on getting better in many ways.
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I like playing the game of imagining trying to explain the current world to myself in 1982 (or whatever). My favorite recent one is the coffee shop. First, the entire business seems weird -- selling strange, expensive forms of coffee with psuedo-Italian names. Then you look around, and every other table is someone with a laptop -- each of which has approximately the power of a Cray XMP supercomputer, plus the ability to easily play nearly every piece of music or movie in existance -- not to mention every video game in the arcade. And they're all wirelessly connected to other computers spread across the world, allowing you to communicate instantly with people anywhere on the planet, go shopping without leaving the coffee shop, etc. From the 1982 perspective it seems like it's all too implausible to even be good science fiction....
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