Micronisation: classic or dud?

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Technology seems to get smaller and smaller...

Lp - CD - mini-disc - mp3

Video Camera - Digital Camera - even smaller digital camera

There must be other examples.

Anyway, is a flatter TV, a smaller stereo, a mini-computer really going to make much difference apart from taking up less space?

Progress = everything gets more compact?

― jel --, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

distraught man: "i can't remember where i parked my car"
helpful official: "perhaps it is under this sweetie wrapper?"

― mark s, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

heh!

I just remembered the product life cycle and waste and capitalism, so I guess my question is redundant. Anyway, talk about micronisation, what do you want to micronise?

I think, I read in some sci-fi story that if people were much smaller (say 30cms) then space exploration would be alot easier, and we'd have less environmental impact on the planet, but we would be more likely to get mauled by our cats.

― , Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha there is great scifi story abt where earth is threatened by a vast fleet of attack ships, and the president of earth sees no choice but to give in and the fleet lands at the main spaceport ready to invade, except it all gets swallowed up in a not very big puddle

― mark s, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The most enormous miniaturisation trend has been computers. It's been pointed out that thirty years ago, to produce a computer as powerful as the average home PC nowadays, it would have cost the military budget of a decent sized nation and would have been the size of a small town. The first computer I ever touched was the size of a largeish desk and about as powerful as the average pocket calculator now, let alone the more advanced mobile phone or a palmtop machine.

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.haifa.ac.il/~naomi/isetta.gif

― nathalie, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the car is quite big compared to the teeny-tiny houses it is driving past

― mark s, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aren't TV sets getting bigger (thank christ!)?

― Andrew L, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually I think you have to thank the Japanese for that.

― nathalie, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My 72-inch vision of Rod Stewart is thanks to the Italians, but whatever.

Considering the number of weeny things I have I'm very much against this, going by the number of them that still work properly. Fancy things also have to be tiny and delicate, apparently.

― Graham, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tiny things are good. My goal in life is to fit everything in my room into one drawer. I am not doing this the easy way, i.e. just throwing everything out.

― Maria, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

progres=nanomedicine
If anyone ever have questions about freaky stuff like this etc I'll be glad to help, to the best of my amateur knowledge

― The Hegemon, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If it was not obvious enough in my last post, micronisation is totally CLASSIC!!!!! :)

― The Hegemon, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Too Small?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 7 August 2003 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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