THOUGHTS ON THE IMPACT OF more and more computing every year. In more and more places. “What took 500 hours of median wages to purchase in 2002 now takes just 40 hours of median wages in 2009. Pessimists counter that computing is too small a part of the economy for this to be a significant prosperity elevator. But let’s see how much of the global economy is devoted to computing relative to oil (let alone gold).”