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It’s All About the Teraflops
November 12th, 2007
In the 60 year history of computers, there has been a constant improvement of computational speed. Ever faster has always been one of the driving metrics of the industry. Moore’s Law has been manifested with desktops and laptops to the point where the computers we use are as fast as we need. The machines we use today are incredibly faster that those we used at the turn of the century. The power of these machines however is dwarfed by the super computers now being developed.
Sometimes it is Easy to See the Future – 3
November 14th, 2006
In both the first and second posts with this title I stated that while in many areas it might be difficult to see into the future, in the area of technology the future can be readily seen. The speed of technological invention and innovation moves so quickly that we have barely assimilated a recent breakthrough when another shows up to knock us back on our heels again. While these innovations do provide a glimpse of our future, they can be disorienting in that they show us that the Present that we are struggling to accept and assimilate will …
Always Faster
September 20th, 2006
Just when you thought you had caught up with the ever increasing speed of technology, along comes another breakthrough to make you feel unnerved by the speed of change. This week it was the stunning announcement of a breakthrough in chip technology that turned my head. As I read the articles about this, the thought balloon over my head would have been a big “WOW!!†with multiple exclamation points had I been in a comic strip.
Researchers from Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara announced they had been able to create a silicon based chip that can produce laser …
