Monday, November 20, 2017

Convergence

Convergence  in technology is like the growing generations, as we progress technology progresses with us. So it is kind of like Moore's Law in a way, that has everything to do with computational speed and that other junk. I think they have actually blown moore's law out of the water because it is actually going faster than he predicted. 

I get really really confused when it comes to convergence and all the new discoveries happening around me. It all started as a mainframe or a Chiac then as time went on progressed to processors! We have a 286>386>486>pentium>dual pentium and so on. Access to computers started with the military, then went onto business and university. Now we have finally arrived to multiple computers and IOT's (whatever IOT is 😓😓) The size of our computers have generously changed of course, started as warehouse sizes and have now converted to portable pc's. 
Data throughput started as a wired network through cables, eventually converted to modems(14.4,28.8). And this was just until wireless networks were introduced. We have 3g, 4g , 4gLTE, many wireless networks to increase the speed of our networks.
Lastly is our memory and storage, which started as Ram. Ram stored memory that was short term, and it was stored in kilobytes. Every kilabyte was 1000 bytes, which is kind of like kilograms and grams. Another form of storage was disk based, Weinchester was the first thing introduced with 1BM based storage. It was more convenient because it had  long term memory, unlike the RAM. It came on floppy disk or hard disk, floppy stored 360k while hard stored 720k. 

In all reality it's high tech and only the smartest of the smartest will get the new technology.

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Convergence

Convergence    in technology is like the growing generations, as we progress technology progresses with us. So it is kind of like Moore'...