Many people in the computer industry take enormous pride in how fast computer technology is improving. The original (1981) IBM PC ran at a clock speed of 4.77 MHz. Twenty years later, PCs could run at 2 GHz, a gain of a factor of 20 per decade. Not too bad.
In the same period, wide area data communication went from 56 kbps (the ARPANET) to 1 Gbps (modern optical communication), a gain of more than a factor of 125 per decade, while at the same time the error rate went from 10-5 per bit to almost zero.
i have to cope with a 125 gain factor of knowledge per decade ... can i really do this do i have the power to do this and the tougher question do i want to do this.
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