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They claim that the major breakthroughs will come with bigger and faster processors, megabytes of RAM, new languages, and better display hardware. Holography, trackballs, laserdisks, body sensors—these are the coin of the realm among the technological extrapolators.
I cast a cold eye on such predictions.
—Chris Crawford, The Art of Computer Game Design: Reflections of a Master Game Designer, (Berkley, CA: Osborne/McGraw Hill, 1984), 105.
Megabytes of RAM? I remember those days…
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Hundreds of pictures of Earth, each taken at about 6AM , showing the terminator - the day/night line - over the course of one year (2010sep-2011sep).
Taken by METEOSAT-9 Earth-observing satellite.
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
(Source: universetoday.com, via legitimusmaximus)