The first phone call across the Atlantic, in 1927, cost about seventy five dollars for three minutes, more than a thousand in today's money. Right now you can see a face on the other side of the planet, in real time, for free.
The first phone call across the Atlantic, in 1927, cost about seventy five dollars for three minutes, more than a thousand in today's money. Right now you can see a face on the other side of the planet, in real time, for free.
Positive users celebrate free global video calls replacing costly 1927 transatlantic phone calls for driving innovation, cost deflation, and a more connected future, while negative users reject the free claim as inaccurate and misleading.
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Beautiful. And it goes on forever. In 1981, storing one gigabyte of data, the equivalent of 3,000 books, cost $300,000. Today it fits on a ten-dollar USB stick, with room to spare. In 1984, one billion calculations per second cost nearly $19 million. Today it's in the phone in your pocket, and you use it to watch cat videos. A whole encyclopedia, once a piece of living-room furniture and a month's salary: now a chip a centimeter wide. Every generation inherits for free what cost the last one a fortune. We hold in our pockets a power that once belonged to kings. The rest is up to us.
@PeterDiamandis @elonmusk The deflation of communication costs is the most bullish chart nobody talks about. We’re living in the future we were promised. LFG.
@PeterDiamandis @elonmusk Amazing how innovation keeps bringing people closer together. Here's to an even more connected future. 🌍📡
@PeterDiamandis @elonmusk Its not free. Not even close.
The first phone call across the Atlantic, in 1927, cost about seventy five dollars for three minutes, more than a thousand in today's money. Right now you can see a face on the other side of the planet, in real time, for free.
Positive users celebrate free global video calls replacing costly 1927 transatlantic phone calls for driving innovation, cost deflation, and a more connected future, while negative users reject the free claim as inaccurate and misleading.
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