Megapixels (or, Showing My Age) (Score 2)

Back in the mid-80s, people talked about the "3M" machines: 1 Million instructions per second, 1 Million bytes of memory, and 1 Million pixels on the screen. Well, in the first two, we are nearly 1000 times up from a Million, but even 1600x1200 is only about up by a factor of 2. What we need are more pixels over a much bigger field of view. SWAG-ing it, I'd say resolution of 1 arc minute over a field of view about 100 degrees in each direction - this is 36 M pixels. When we are there, then displays will nearly fill the user's visual field, which will make the experience of computing quite different than now (compare pictures of the Grand Canyon to actually being there). So when are we getting the super displays. Not for a long while yet, I guess.