![]() ![]() ![]() People used to worry about the dominance of IBM, and the ways in which mainframes amplified a world of centralized control. Then, we worried about Microsoft and its apparent control over the PC world. Today, ironically, as computers have grown smaller, more ubiquitous, and unimaginably powerful, centralized control has only become more of a concern. Google knows more about billions of individuals than most governments. Apple, Amazon and Facebook are all strong instruments of a future of centralized control, and pervasive reach.īut it doesn’t have to continue this way. Because the biggest technological change of all is underway. We’ve seen the shift from thousands of mainframes, to millions of PCs, to billions of phones - and we’re about to see trillions of even more powerful devices become central to our lives. That’s what this paper is all about: societal change, cultural change, technical change and most of all an imperative change.Īs that happens, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be sure the next technology shift leads away from centralization and de-humanization, and towards a world we all really want. The Great Acceleration: Processing Power, Storage, and Moore’s Law if we care about the value of individuality and humanity. The new NVIDIA chips in cars, and the Qualcomm chips in drones, completely change how we view ‘devices’ and ‘gadgets’. ![]() A mobile phone today is literally a supercomputer. What’s more amazing: a car is now a mobile phone on wheels, while a drone is a mobile phone with wings. New cars have local networks connecting over 100 CPUs a self-driving car will have many hundreds of CPUs. The Nvidia AI car showcased at CES 2017 has 2 discrete processors, and 2 discrete GPUs delivering 24 trillion operations per second, drawing just 30 watts with 8 high-end CPU cores with 512 next generation GPI chips inside. Ten years ago, this kind of power and capacity weren’t even imaginable.Īll these cameras, cars, phones, drones (and even Apple’s new AirPods) have domain-specific, vertical applications running on them, collecting, processing, and storing real time data. These supercomputers are everywhere, and even the smallest, most ubiquitous among them are quite amazing and powerful.Ĭonsider that over one trillion phones have been produced in just a few decades, and we’re just getting started. ![]()
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