Singularity is Near -SIN Graph - Price Performance (Wireless Data Devices)

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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	Bits per Second/$	Vendor	Device
1990	1.47	Motorola	840C11 Modem
1992	3.66	Ericsson GE	Mobidem Modem
1993	8.74	Ericsson GE	Mobidem Modem
1994	13.9	Sierra Wireless	PocketPlus Modem
1995	41	Unspecified	Access Point (bridge)
1997	628	Raytheon	Access Point (bridge)
1999	974	Basic (unspecified)	Access Point (bridge)
2000	5000	Wavespan	Stratum 100 Ethernet Bridge
2002	22700	fSona	1250-S point to point optics
2004	65800	Bridgewave	wireless gigabit Ethernet link
Price-Performance of Wireless Data Devices, Bits per Second per Dollar, Logarithmic Graph, pg 77 Source: James DeRose, The Wireless Data Handbook (St. Johnsbury, Vt.: Quantrum, 1996); First Mile Wireless, http://www.firstmilewireless.com/; J. B.Miles, “Wireless LANs,” Government Computer News 18.28 (April 30, 1999), http://www.gcn.com/vol18_no28/guide/514-1.html; Wireless Week (April 14, 1997), http://www.wirelessweek.com/toc/4%2F14%2F1997; Office of Technology Assessment, “Wireless Technologies and the National Information Infrastructure,” September 1995, http://infoventures.com/emf/federal/ota/ota95-tc.html; Signal Lake, “Broadband Wireless Network Economics Update,” January 14, 2003, http://www.signallake.com/publications/broadbandupdate.pdf; BridgeWave Communications communication, http://www.bridgewave.com/050604.htm.