Dickeson--Here There Be Dragons

We know that the microprocessor age has achieved its rank in our economy alongside the combustion engine and television. We can capture and process data. Processing speeds will increase just as gas mileage must increase. Sustaining computer technologies will do this.

The disruptive technologic impact has now shifted to bandwidth and storewidth—from the microcosm to the telecosm as George Gilder puts it in his reports. With bandwidth (transmission speed) increases on fiber optics, the entire contents of the Library of Congress can now be sent from Washington to Peoria in the blink of an eye—or less, if it were digitally stored and available at that Library and if Peoria had a digital storage receptacle to hold it on receipt. And that's the province of storewidth, the measure of digits that can be stored in a given size on a disk or cube.