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					 Wow. Wow.
					
						
							This is a source taken from Reading Improvement magazine, and it lists an estimated timeline with a computer scientist and a few buisness firms.
 
 1971: 4004 Processor
 1972: 8008 Processor
 1974: 8080 Processor
 1978: 8086 Processor
 1982: 286 Processor
 1985: 385 Processor
 1989: 486 Processor
 1993: Pentium Processor
 1997: Pentium II Processor
 1999: Pentium III Processor
 2000: Pentium 4 Processor
 2006: 3.4GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 800GB hardrive - $1011
 2011: 11GHz Processor, 16GB RAM, 16TB Hardrive - $740
 2016: 37GHz processor, 131 GB RAM, 320TB Hardrive - $541
 2021: 122GHz Processor, 1TB RAM, 8400GB Hardrive - $396
 2026: 400GHz Processor, 8.4TB RAM, 128PB Hardrive - $289
 2031: 1.3THz processor, 67TB RAM, 2.5EB Hardrive - $212
 
 This is, I assume, all taking into account rates of predicted inflation(since this was done with a buisness analyst). So yeah...that's the relative price you can expect for computers like these...in the "near" future. Not surprising though, considering technology tends to have a "J-curve" like graph when plotted against efficiency over time.
 
 For reference:
 
 TB = Terabyte = 1000 Gigabytes
 PB = Petabyte = 1000 Terabytes
 EB = Exabyte = 1000 Petabytes
 
 All I have to say is "HOLY SCHNIKES!"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
		
		
			
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