How much of "the tasks we're doing" are repetetive? Someone in the 4TB SSD discussion said MicroSD cards at the moment could fit 50TB of storage in a standard laptop hard drive form factor - if anyone would pay for it.
If transistors became free, how much could they be used for not-computation/storage? How much would your cheaper "(but not faster)" video card be able to get a speed boost by having terabytes of pre-computed things in cache?
e.g. the difference between brute force password cracking and rainbow tables, or basic arithmetic and log tables.
If transistors became free, how much could they be used for not-computation/storage? How much would your cheaper "(but not faster)" video card be able to get a speed boost by having terabytes of pre-computed things in cache?
e.g. the difference between brute force password cracking and rainbow tables, or basic arithmetic and log tables.