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I purchased my first digital camera in 2001 or perhaps early 2002. A few days back I realised I had some of those old pictures stored away. Those images had a royal resolution of 1 mega pixel. The size of the photographs - every single one of them was less than 100kb. 

At that point, digital cameras were still new. So new that people will still buying non digital SLRs and film cameras. 

Approximately 20 years later, digital camera resolution has grown by leaps and bounds - our phone cameras offer resolution that was deemed impossible then. 

I was in awe of the technology then - but seeing those images of 20 years  ago - I was in awe even more to see how technology has progressed.

At that time, I was a coder (or thereabouts) trying to find my feet in the tech industry. 

10 years ago, I had another digital camera with the resolution of approximately 12MP. And a few years back we stopped carrying cameras anywhere - only phones. 10 years ago I made another shift in my career. 

Point being a 10 and 20 year gap seems impossible to visualise. As Bill Gates famously said, "We overestimate what we can achieve in 1 year and underestimate in 10"

And thats true. I started this blog in 2011. Here is the first post. When I started the blog - I thought was it too late. This is my 500th post on the blog approximately 10 years later. The blog has enabled me to put my thoughts in writing, clarify my own thinking and of course serve as an index mechanism that enables me to organize my thoughts. 

So, it is never too late. It is always an evolution. 

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