Another Damn Blog » Technology http://anotherdamnblog.com/wordpress Because the world needed one more Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:01:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en The Explosion of Digital Data http://anotherdamnblog.com/wordpress/index.php/the-explosion-of-digital-data/ http://anotherdamnblog.com/wordpress/index.php/the-explosion-of-digital-data/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:01:54 +0000 ep http://anotherdamnblog.com/?p=772 Below is a pretty awesome graphic that is derived from research done research done by USC alum (FIGHT ON) Martin Hilbert and Priscila Lopez.  The work is titled, “The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information.” 

 One of the things I found most interesting is that in 1986 41% of the computing power was pocket calculators.

]]> http://anotherdamnblog.com/wordpress/index.php/the-explosion-of-digital-data/feed/ Spread of the Printing Press in Europe http://anotherdamnblog.com/wordpress/index.php/spread-of-the-printing-press-in-europe/ http://anotherdamnblog.com/wordpress/index.php/spread-of-the-printing-press-in-europe/#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:49:35 +0000 ep http://anotherdamnblog.com/?p=766 Interesting article that analyizes the spread of the priting press in Europe and how it affected the growth of cities that had one.

http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6092

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