Pointing to the smartphone, Kurzweil says, devices like the iPhone are 100,000 times smaller than the computer that he used as an MIT student. "It is also several thousand times more powerful," he says. "It is a million times cheaper. That is a several billion-fold increase in price performance." Technology is being reduced at a rate of "100,000 in 3-D volume per decade," says Kurzweil. "That is another predictable exponential trajectory, so computers of this capability will be blood-cell size in 2030.
Phone size is increasing again.
30 Years Of Cell Phones
There is one phone missing in that photo. I purchased a "mobile" phone in 1991 or so and it was roughly 8x10x3 and had a handset that looked like a traditional phone with a 8in antennae, i believe that was the first mobile phone built as I was totally into cell phones when they first were introduced in the late 80s and paying 1-3 dollars per minute. Ill have to find a picture of that phone.. too bad I didn't keep it, im sure it would be worth something today..
Starts at Nokia moves onwards lol.
Anyways the first cell phones would definitely have some value today in a mobile phone museum
They have a nice contrast though.
Bitcoin, you're drunk
Sideways hehe that works Bitcoin is being tipsy today
Nice to get rid of the external antenna on those...
