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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://wandering.shop/users/cstross/statuses/113579274950375124">Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 05:02:48 JST</a><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" title="cstross@wandering.shop"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/35284-48-20230405092346.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Charlie Stross" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Charlie Stross</a></section><article><p>This is your reminder that for the past 40 years the price of consumer electronics underwent roughly 10% compound *deflation* year by year. </p><p>An entry level Android or iPhone is every non-shooty-bang-or-transportation James Bond gadget rolled into one for the inflation-adjusted cost of a 35mm film SLR or a Commodore 64 back in 1984.</p><p>It's also much more powerful than every supercomputer on the planet back then, in combination.</p><p>And it's in your pocket.<br><a href="https://canada.masto.host/@graydon/113579152811903958" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://canada.masto.host/@graydon/113579152811903958</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4104438#notice-8019748">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-12-02T05:02:48+09:00" title="Monday, 02-Dec-2024 05:02:48 JST">about 6 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross/113579274950375124" rel="external" title="Sent from wandering.shop via ActivityPub">wandering.shop</a></span></span><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross/113579274950375124">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2563751">Untitled attachment</a></label><br></li><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://canada.masto.host/@graydon/113579152811903958">Graydon (@graydon@canada.masto.host)</a></h5><div> from <span>Graydon</span></div></header><div>I see posts describing AI as useless or harmful and yet the perpetrators still expect money, and I find myself going "well, yeah."IT/Tech/whatever was a gold rush brought on by the development of VLSI circuit production. No one expected it or planned for it and it was the only real economic growth for thirty years, but now it's over.What we're seeing is a bunch of organisms adapted for the gold rush expressing their deepest insecurity in frank terms as "you have to keep giving us money".</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 05:02:48 JST Charlie Stross
This is your reminder that for the past 40 years the price of consumer electronics underwent roughly 10% compound *deflation* year by year.
An entry level Android or iPhone is every non-shooty-bang-or-transportation James Bond gadget rolled into one for the inflation-adjusted cost of a 35mm film SLR or a Commodore 64 back in 1984.
It's also much more powerful than every supercomputer on the planet back then, in combination.
And it's in your pocket.
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  I see posts describing AI as useless or harmful and yet the perpetrators still expect money, and I find myself going "well, yeah." IT/Tech/whatever was a gold rush brought on by the development of VLSI circuit production. No one expected it or planned for it and it was the only real economic growth for thirty years, but now it's over. What we're seeing is a bunch of organisms adapted for the gold rush expressing their deepest insecurity in frank terms as "you have to keep giving us money".

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