{"id":3958,"date":"2014-04-09T06:17:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2014-04-09T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T11:00:02","slug":"progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is advancing at a pace that&#8217;s blistering.<\/p>\n<p>If anything can illustrate the progress of technological change, it&#8217;s the picture below: a smaller footprint and a massive increase in storage capacity in under 10 years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/04\/tech_advance.jpeg\" alt=\"tech_advance\" width=\"600\" height=\"361\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/04\/tech_advance.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/04\/tech_advance-300x180.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just capacity that&#8217;s changed. Prices have changed too. Back in 1998 I paid &pound;140 for a 3.5 hard drive with 8 GB of storage. Nowadays I can buy a USB device with an equivalent capacity for &pound;10 in most large supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensure.net\/\">OpenSure<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is advancing at a pace that&#8217;s blistering. If anything can illustrate the progress of technological change, it&#8217;s the picture below: a smaller footprint and a massive increase in storage capacity in under 10 years. It&#8217;s not just capacity that&#8217;s changed. Prices have changed too. Back in 1998 I paid &pound;140 for a 3.5 hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9],"tags":[36,23],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddities","category-tech","tag-comment","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3966,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}