1GB from the 1980 vs 2009

We have as a whole come along way in the technological world over the years. We went from a huge 1GB hard drive to something that is now even smaller and larger than 1GB that we can fit into our pockets. This drive looks like the Flux Capacitor.

You would never lose the 1980's version in a drawer in your kitchen and spend 2 hours searching for it before you gave up and went and bought another one then discover it in your pants pocket when you got home.

Techonology is forever changing at a rapid pace and we are all aware of that. The picture above is a comparison between “Head Disk Assembly” (HDA) from an IBM 3380 Model J storage device from the 80s and an SD card that we carry today.

Do you think that the engineers of the day would guess that today we would have more than a hundred times that storage in your pocket which also by the way has a color screen, battery and the smarts to make it play audio and video?