a step closer towards breaking traditional history and civilization

[Conan_The_Barbarian]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6354225.stm

Teraflop chip hints at the future

The chip is the size of a fingernail. 11 years ago...
A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflop) has been unveiled by Intel.
The Teraflop chip is not a commercial release but could point the way to more powerful processors, said the firm.

The chip achieves performance on a piece of silicon no bigger than a fingernail that 11 years ago required a machine with 10,000 chips inside it.

The challenge is to find a way to program the many cores simultaneously.

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Moore's law in action. Has anyone hear read anything by Ray Kurzweil or Radical Evolution? I read a few of them a couple years ago and it puts an interesting spin on long term technological trends and their implications. Our species artifical computing power just keeps growing at an expodential rate, a break through in 20 years will make this break through seem comparatively pathetic. Interesting to wonder where this trend will take us in another 50 years, or 100 years.

[Odin2005]

1. I've just started reading "The Singularity Is Near"

It's excellent so far.

Oh, and here is a great Transhumanism blog I found:

http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/



I'm expecting the luddite types to start filling this thread with their BS in 3... 2... 1...