RE: [xml-dev] XML has enabled the exponential progress of _______(fill i

["Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>]

> Does he really imagine that what we can do with 
> computers is limited only by their speed?

Aren't many information processing tasks limited purely because of computer speed limitations?

For example, aren't many (all?) simulations limited due to speed limitations?

/Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@saxonica.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 10:06 AM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XML has enabled the exponential progress of _______ (fill in the blank)

On 18/02/2011 13:24, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I recently read this:
>
>     Now that health technology is an information technology
>     and subject to the exponential progress that underlies
>     all information technology ...
>
>     The power of information technology doubles every year,
>     within a decade these technologies will be a thousand
>     times more powerful than they are today and a million
>     times more powerful in 2 decades.
>

Some idiot who has confused speed with power.

Does he really imagine that what we can do with computers is limited 
only by their speed?

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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