The Year of Low Power

摘要

The history of high tech is a series of curves. The x-axis has always been time, while the y-axis has variously been size, speed, RAM and resolution. Computers got smaller, chips got faster, memory increased almost exponentially and pixels per square inch did the same-with every graph of progress tracing a similar hockey-stick shape pattern. Each frontier in computing has been crossed by delivering ever-increasing amounts of something until we have more of it than we could possibly need.