September 3, 2007
In the US 426,000 cell phones are discarded every day. What does that look like and how do you make a picture that looks like that? See the article and picture in the IEEE Spectrum magazine, “The Big Picture.” Visualizing big numbers is tough; pictures help. Hmm, now 20,000,000 PROFIBUS nodes… too hard. What about 3,400,000 in 2006; that’s 9,135 per day…