"Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer"

I wrote the previous post and went to my homepage where I saw this WIRED Infoporn article. There is this unimaginable processing power out there - except that it is not truly participating in massively-parallel computation like our brain-cells are. Once somebody finds a way around that, we will have instant super-human intelligence. I just hope it is not somebody on the dark side!

PS: I had to look up the processing power of a typical human brain. This blog reports that:
A human brain's probable processing power is around 100 teraflops, roughly 100 trillion calculations per second, according to Hans Morvec, principal research scientist at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.
So on a purely raw processing power basis, the One Computer is already 12,000 times as powerful! It needs true parallel processing and it needs better software. I tell you, Singularity is going to happen before we know it.

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