When you go to the store to buy an USB stick the storage capacities of sticks are much larger than those you would find in the same store 10 years ago. However, the physical size of today’s USB sticks is about the same (or even smaller) as the sticks from 10 years ago. How?
In: Technology
Short answer, efficiency.
Long answer, technology has gotten better at creating smaller and smaller components. When TVs were new and electrical engineering was in its infancy, a 13” tube TV needed a buffet table sized cabinet to hold all its workings. The ability to make circuit boards and processors was so primitive. Now we can right all of those components on a chip the size of an Oreo cookie.
Through advancements in programming and construction we can now cram more information in the same space.
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