Shannon's Journal

[Shannon]

According to Moore's Law, processing power doubles approximately every 18 months. That means that what currently takes me 12 hours of computer processing work to accomplish would require about 24 hours of work a year and a half ago. Three years ago, it would have been 48 hours. Four and a half years ago, 72 hours. Six years ago, 144 hours (6 days). Seven and a half years ago, 12 days. 9 years ago, 24 days. 10.5 years ago, 48 days (~1.5 months). 12 years back, just over 3 months of processing time. 13.5 years ago, ~6.2 months. 15 years ago... 12.4 months (~1 YEAR!). 16.5 years back, 2.06 years of computer processing time... 18 years ago, ~4.13 YEARS of computer processing time... 19.5 years ago, 8.25 YEARS of computer processing time.

So next time you think about how long it takes me to build a six stage set... take a moment to think about how long it doesn't take me instead. You guys have it good.

When I started this business, it took me 12 hours of computer processing work to build just one single stage 30 minute track for one program... IF I had the script built already.