With computer records to vouchsafe all calculations, your 1040 report could fit on a postcard and be settled with a credit card.
(One billion could fit on a pinhead).
A new imaging technique small enough to fit on a computer chip has yielded never-before-seen insights into the swimming patterns of the human sperm.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukAT A time when Google is about to release a computer that fits on a pair of spectacles, and Apple and Samsung are racing to build a phone-like device to replace the wristwatch, it is easy to think of mobile phones as unremarkable.
It shrank the mainframe computer to fit on the desktop, shrank it again to fit on our laps and again to fit into our shirt pockets.
In the mid-1980s, Tanow, now better known as Radio Shack introduced the M100, a computer that could indeed fit on a lap a revolutionary concept at the time.
And the market for "blade" servers -- basically, small servers built on computer cards that can all fit on a single rack -- is growing fast.
The number of electronic components that can fit on a silicon chip has been doubling every 18 months or so, greatly increasing computer speed and storage capacity.
And then computers went from being things that filled a room to things that could fit on a desk, and the economy and industries changed.
It has to fit on a shelf.
