Singularity is Near -SIN Graph - Total Bits Shipped

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In order of appearence:

17	Countdown to SIN -logarithmic
18	Countdown to SIN - linear
19	Paradigm Shifts for 15 Lists of Key Events
20	Canonical Milestones
48	Growth of U.S. Phone Industry
49	Estimated U.S. Cell Phone Subscribers
50	Mass Use of Inventions
57	Dynamic RAM Smallest Feature Size
58	Dynamic RAM Price
59	Average Transistor Price
60	Transistor Manufacturing Costs Falling
61	Micro Processor Clock Speed
62	Micro Processor Cost per Transistor Cycle
63	Transistor per Microprocessor
64	Processor Performance (MIPS)
65	Total Bits Shipped
67	Moore's Law - The Fifth Paradigm
70	Exponential Growth of Computing
71	Growth in Supercomputer Power
73	DNA Sequencing Cost
74	Growth in Genbank
75	Random Access Memory
76	Magnetic Data Storage
77	Price Performance (Wireless Data Devices)
78	Internet Hosts - Logarithmic
79	Internet Hosts - Linear
80	Internet Data Traffic
81	Internet Backbone Bandwidth
82	Decrease in Size of Mechanical Devices
83	Nanotech Science Citations
84	U.S. Nanorelated Patents
98	Real Gross Domestic Product
99	Per-Capita GDP
101	Private Manufacturing
104	E-Commerce Revenues in the United States
106	U.S. Patents Granted
107	IT's Share of the Economy
108	U.S. Education Expenditure
129	Reduction in Watts per MIPS
159	Resolution of Noninvasive Brain Scanning
160	Brain Scanning Image Reconstruction Time
331	U.S. War Death

Year	Total Bits Shipped
1971	921600000
1972	3788800000
1973	8294400000
1974	19865600000
1975	42700800000
1976	130662400000
1977	276070400000
1978	663859200000
1979	1438720000000
1980	3172761600000
1981	4512665600000
1982	11520409600000
1983	29648486400000
1984	68418764800000
1985	87518412800000
1986	192407142400000
1987	255608422400000
1988	429404979200000
1989	631957094400000
1990	950593126400000
1991	1.5465906176E+15
1992	2.845638656E+15
1993	4.1779593216E+15
1994	7.5108057088E+15
1995	1.3010599936E+16
1996	2.3359078006784E+16
1997	4.5653879160832E+16
1998	8.5176878104576E+16
1999	1.47327404736512E+17
2000	2.63635863601152E+17
2001	4.19671970100019E+17
2002	5.9000909463552E+17
Total Bits Shipped, Logarithmic Plot, pg 65 Source: Steve Cullen, “Semiconductor Industry Outlook,” InStat/MDR, report no. IN0401550SI, April 2004, http://www.instat.com/abstract.asp?id=68&SKU=IN0401550SI.