Van der Poel pointed out that, in the last decade, packing density of transistors on ICs has increased 100 times; CPU processing in terms of $ per MIPS, has decreased a thousand times; cost of HDD storage has decreased one thousand times; network bandwidth has increased a thousand-fold, and the cost of bandwidth in terms of bit/s per km has decreased by 30 times.

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