February 22, 2007
Gamers Of The World: Thank You!
Recently I purchased two new computers. It struck me that the prices had come down considerably since buying the last one. At the same time the specs had gone up to very impressive levels.
Not long ago, we were pushing our computers to the max running photoshop: it just couldn’t handle the complex mix of styled vector data and bitmap imagery. Much to my delight these latest computers are just ripping through the stuff, while at the same time running Dreamweaver, Illustrator, VOIP software and various other applications.
It got me thinking about why these prices had fallen so much. I entertained the notion that this was partly due to millions of gaming enthousiasts pushing the envelope by continously demanding more of their systems–up to a level that surpasses the requirements of most graphics industry professionals.
Similarly P2P folk would have contributed to better network infrastructure and cheaper prices by making file swapping a routine affair. Perhaps we can even go as far as thanking spammers for taking up so much of the internet’s bandwidth with their enormous volume of useless messages. But no, that would be taking this train of thought too far.