Singularity is Near -SIN Graph - Internet Backbone Bandwidth

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In order of appearence:

17	Countdown to SIN -logarithmic
18	Countdown to SIN - linear
19	Paradigm Shifts for 15 Lists of Key Events
20	Canonical Milestones
48	Growth of U.S. Phone Industry
49	Estimated U.S. Cell Phone Subscribers
50	Mass Use of Inventions
57	Dynamic RAM Smallest Feature Size
58	Dynamic RAM Price
59	Average Transistor Price
60	Transistor Manufacturing Costs Falling
61	Micro Processor Clock Speed
62	Micro Processor Cost per Transistor Cycle
63	Transistor per Microprocessor
64	Processor Performance (MIPS)
65	Total Bits Shipped
67	Moore's Law - The Fifth Paradigm
70	Exponential Growth of Computing
71	Growth in Supercomputer Power
73	DNA Sequencing Cost
74	Growth in Genbank
75	Random Access Memory
76	Magnetic Data Storage
77	Price Performance (Wireless Data Devices)
78	Internet Hosts - Logarithmic
79	Internet Hosts - Linear
80	Internet Data Traffic
81	Internet Backbone Bandwidth
82	Decrease in Size of Mechanical Devices
83	Nanotech Science Citations
84	U.S. Nanorelated Patents
98	Real Gross Domestic Product
99	Per-Capita GDP
101	Private Manufacturing
104	E-Commerce Revenues in the United States
106	U.S. Patents Granted
107	IT's Share of the Economy
108	U.S. Education Expenditure
129	Reduction in Watts per MIPS
159	Resolution of Noninvasive Brain Scanning
160	Brain Scanning Image Reconstruction Time
331	U.S. War Death

Year	Bits per Second
1968	50000
1972	50000
1973	50000
1974	50000
1976	50000
1979	50000
1981	56000
1983	56000
1984	56000
1985	1544000
1986	1544000
1987	1544000
1988	1544000
1989	1544000
1990	1544000
1991	44736000
1992	44736000
1993	44736000
1994	145000000
1995	145000000
1996	622080000
1998	2488000000
1999	2488000000
2000	2488000000
2001	2488000000
2002	2488000000
2003	9952000000
2004	9952000000
Internet Backbone Bandwidth, Bits per Second, Logarithmic Plot, pg 81 Source: Dave Kristula, “The History of the Internet” (March 1997, update August 2001), http://www.davesite.com/webstation/net-history.shtml; Robert Zakon, “Hobbes’ Internet Timeline v8.0,” http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline; Converge Network Digest, December 5, 2002, http://www.convergedigest.com/Daily/daily.asp?vn=v9n229&fecha=December%2005,%202002; V. Cerf, “Cerf’s Up,” 2004, http://global.mci.com/de/resources/cerfs_up/.