House Tindal. Physicist, Head of the Crystal One development team and all around curious man. A late term cancer patient, Dr. Gage heads out to Bellisarius Territory to settle his own curiosity about some flaws in the eyewitness reports. He now finds himself spending the last days of his life with his reformed team of Crystal One scientists in an attempt to prevent the literal end of the world.
That last word balloon has the question to one of my favorite tidbits of knowledge. 2.88 x 10^17 calculations per second. According to Moores Law, computing power doubles every 18 months and this is pretty accurate. By that Law, computer will reach the capacity of the human brain in 2025.
This You Tube demonstrates the capacity of the human brain (about the same as fluid ounce volume of Lake Michigan) and when computers will reach that capacity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRG8eq7miUE
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