Sunday, August 07, 2005

Technology: Computers and bugs

Despite dramatic trends in the development of computer technology in terms of processing power, miniaturization and cost economies, the Wikipedia article on computers illustrates that they have yet to reach the complexity of one insect brain -- and they aren't projected to approach the complexity of one human brain until 2025.

No matter how "realistic" you think video games have become, remember that computer graphics pioneer Alvy Ray Smith said about 20 years ago, '"Reality is 50 million polygons per second."

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