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Up to here, is the purely technical aspect of the question, but in what way does all this affect you?
The most significant question is that of the deflation in the real terms of the cost of the technology. To give you an idea of the reach of the deflation, we are going to take it to the aeronautical industry. Well, if the aeronautic technique would have experimented the same reduction of costs that the processor has had (in its memory, its operative speed and its storage of data), today it would be possible to build and to exploit an airplane with a capacity for 1,000 passengers that could fly at 40,000 kilometers an hour consuming a spoonful of fuel and in which the ticket would cost less than one dollar.
The results may cause laughter, but the calculation is exact and it emphasizes the incredible growth of productivity that you can reach with the digital technology.
The most probable is that this tendency will continue, due that the knowledge grows and the research never ends, all of this takes us to new discoveries that are only waiting for its practical application and to be commercially exploited.
No mater in what field, the computers will be each time more important for the development of the human race. If well most of its influence will take place in the backstage, out of the sight of the public, as it happens with the designs assisted by computers or the mass production in the industry or other many fields in which the application of the computers is essential.