Forgive the homage to the 1964 movie “Dr. Strangelove,” but we all seem to have a love/hate relationship with information. For years knowledge was power, information was king and data on its own was dumb.
It's a nice sound bite and I've used it many times over the years, mostly when I am talking with friends about technology, saying if they think what's happening now is amazing, “just wait.” But I was never certain what it was based on. Now, with the incredible leaps in computer speed and capacity, you have to wonder: Can this growth just go on forever?
I recently read a short article in Daniel Burrus' newsletter TechnoTrends entitled, “Giant Boost To Moore's Law,” which spoke of a spectacular advancement in computer memory that makes its nearest compatible technology seem like dust mites next to Mount Everest. IBM has created a new type of memory that reduces the number of atoms required to store one bit of data from about 1 million to 12.
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