By omitting the segment of tape to the left of the input, the doubly infinite tape can replicate an ordinary turning machine.
A multi-tape turning machine isn't as powerful as a single-tape turning machine. By using the second tape as the negative half of the doubly infinite tape, a two-tape turning machine can replicate a doubly infinite one.
formalizes the class of problems that can be solved by computers with bounded memory. (Real world!)
problems could potentially take a long time to solve.
Intuitively space and time seem to be interchangeable.
Just because a problem needs only linear space does not mean it can be solved in linear time.