There always seems to be a lot of "We Can Do The Thing We Do Today But Faster" in these comments.
It misses that we won't be doing Old Thing. We'll be doing New Thing.
It's not a step change in an old medium. It's a qualitatively different change to a completely new medium, whose properties haven't yet been revealed.
It's like waving an iPhone at Babbage. An iPhone is so far ahead of an Analytical Engine that it offers a completely new and unimaginable set of affordances.
It's also faster, smaller, and more reliable, with much more memory - which is an interesting implementation footnote, but incidental to the fact that from a user POV it's a completely different class of device.
It misses that we won't be doing Old Thing. We'll be doing New Thing.
It's not a step change in an old medium. It's a qualitatively different change to a completely new medium, whose properties haven't yet been revealed.
It's like waving an iPhone at Babbage. An iPhone is so far ahead of an Analytical Engine that it offers a completely new and unimaginable set of affordances.
It's also faster, smaller, and more reliable, with much more memory - which is an interesting implementation footnote, but incidental to the fact that from a user POV it's a completely different class of device.