Tech Smart Stories
Technology trend stories tracking storage costs, Moore's Law, and the exponential changes shaping our digital future.
11 Million Subscribers: Why We Watch a Man Build Mud Huts
Tech • Media • Human Behavior • DIY Culture
Primitive Technology has 11 million YouTube subscribers watching silent videos of a man building mud huts. This Old House, television's 33 year home improvement institution, has 1.8 million. His most viewed video has 86 million views. No talking. No music. Just ancient building techniques. 26% of Americans pursue DIY hobbies. The maker movement grows 25% annually. We never evolved past making. We were just told we had.
The craft industry grew 45% in six years, reaching $43.9 billion. 63% of households now engage in creative activities. The maker instinct never left. Technology just gave us new ways to express what we've always been.
The 3.48 Trillion Factor: Why Your $50 Hard Drive Would Have Cost More Than Earth's GDP
Tech • Storage • Hardware • Price Trends • Moore's Law
In 1957, $1,000 bought 0.00000026 bytes of memory. Today, that same $1,000 buys 94 terabytes of hard drive space. Storage costs fell 3.48 trillion times. No other technology in human history has delivered cost reductions of this magnitude. Your smartphone holds more data than 1990 corporate data centers. We stopped noticing the miracle.
Storage costs fell 3.48 trillion times. Memory drops 35% per year. Disk drops 29% per year. Within 15 years, a terabyte will cost under $1. When remembering everything costs pennies, we're free to imagine what comes next.