Humble Hard Drive Wins Nobel Prize
October 10, 2007It’s good to see the discoverers of the basic science around hard drive technology winning the 2007 Nobel Prize. The hard drive has become the ultimate commodity product–everyone reading this has one, but like Rodney Dangerfield, the spinning disk that stores your applications, music and porn ”gets no respect.”
One industry spokesperson described manufacturing disk drives as “the longest-running industrial philanthropy.” If someone could find a way to make money with hard drives, that would be worthy of an economics Nobel!