Not that far off at all then, 50 years? - a mere blink of the eye compared to the scale of time.
10 to the power of 48 operations per second?, mere idling for a quantum computer - admittingly still 50 years off in practice, but the theoretical science is already there.
Umm, I think Tony is referring to an article that appeared in New Scientist (does anyone else read this?) and was probably lifted by The Australian. It is an interesting conundrum which I wrote a brief piece about in the computers forum.
Basically it goes like this. Computer games and...
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