The first 5 megabyte hard drive in 1956

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12. The first 5 MB hard drive was so big, they needed an entire PanAm plane to transport it (1956).

When I was 18 I went to college and studied Computer Data processing. There were no microprocessors yet in the public arena at all besides the non-microprocessor Transistors in our hand held radios the we usually only could get AM stations on then with a single earphone as we rock and rolled down the street as children and teenagers. When I first went to work at 20 for the largest Computer data processing Computer center for processing Accounting Data at age 20 in Los Angeles for the largest Car dealerships in the state there were no windows in the warehouse like structure because we worked on Millions of dollars in equipment then and they didn't want anyone to steal it. Also, at 20 I worked 12 hours a day 7 days a week midnight to noon. Which I now consider insane to have done then because I wasn't even married and didn't have any kids yet.

I bought my first TRS 80 computer with 4 k (not even megabytes of memory) for $600  in 1978 where it was only in black and white and any programs you wrote in Basic language, if you wanted to store them you had to record them on Cassette tape before you turned off the computer because basically all programs left when you turned it off and you had to reload the programs you wanted to run that you had programmed whenever you turned the computer back on.

I taught all my kids to program in Basic in the early 1980s and in 1987 we bought an IBM
Clone AT in Silicon Valley then and an Epson Printer for around $2500 and we ran MS-Dos on it which the kids really loved using and writing their own game programs for.

Now your Iphone or Android likely has more memory and power than those millions of dollars of computers like the IBM 360 mod 20 or 30  and the univac optical scanners and all the punch card equipment that I used the size of a warehouse to process automated accounting for the major car dealerships then in 1968 in California when I was 20.

Computer technology has become thousands or millions of times more efficient and smaller and your IPhone within a few years will be a match for a human brain, any human brain.

Whether this is good or bad likely the answer will be: Both.