Great moments in scientific debate

Experiment says my interpretation of quantum mechanics is right and all others are wrong and anyone who says otherwise is wrong because I predicted they'd say that and I call dibs.

By the way, the sober, reasoned counterargument was here.

Disks!

As I've said before, the explosion in mass storage is the great unsung technology story of the past decade. Or not exactly unsung, since it made TiVos and iPods possible (and, if you extend it to solid state, it made practical digicams possible as well).

It's more amazing than the advance in processor speeds, more amazing than the drop in RAM prices, and way more amazing than the increase in network capacity. And it's nullified a lot of futurology that was less savvy than IBM's. When the Internet was becoming hot stuff, people imagined all kinds of thin-client things going on: most PCs would give way to little diskless NCs and everyone would stream everything from a server by broadband all the time. Streaming was the future of digital music, because who'd buy a 100-gigabyte monster of a disk array just to store their record collection? But that's exactly what many people do today; you can put a 40-gig one in your pocket, even if you don't have a very large pocket. Diskless is the opposite of where everything went. Big disks leapfrogged broadband by years, especially in backward places like the United States.