Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2

[Gregory Ewing]

Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
> <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>>        The coordinates of each particle storing the information in that
>>teaspoon of matter.
> 
> Which is probably more data than any of us will keyboard in a
> lifetime. Hence my point.

My 1TB hard disk *already* contains more information than
I could keyboard in my lifetime.

The fact that it all got there is due to two things: (1)
I didn't have to enter it all myself, and (2) most of it
was auto-generated from other information, using compilers
and other such tools.

Our disk capacities are increasing exponentially, but
so is the rate at which we have the ability to create
information. I wouldn't be surprised if, at some point
before the human race becomes extinct, we build
computers whose operating system requires more than
a teaspoonful of atoms to store. Especially if
Microsoft still exists by then. :-)

-- 
Greg