In general, if an organisation needs to do something that uses computation, and that task is too expensive today, it probably won’t be too expensive in a couple of years. For companies, this realisation has deep significance. Firms that figured out that the effective price of computation was declining, even if the notional price of what they were buying was staying the same (or even rising), could plan, practise and experiment with the near future in mind. Even if those futuristic activities were expensive now, they would become affordable soon enough. Organisations that understood this
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