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Originally posted by Fallen Angel@Sep 7 2003, 05:05 AM
What is ironic considering how much a computer can do at one time, and how incredibly fast it is, is that it was reported in a magazine I was flicking through once that to be the equal of a human brain, the size of the most modern computer would be as big as two city blocks, now I read that four years ago, and as much as technology has advanced, since even then, I don't think the size of this computer would have diminished that much, so we must have untold depths of mental capabilitys we are generally not aware of, like Einstein said, the average human uses less than 10% of his brain or her brain, so imagine if you will what we could be actually capable of doing then? |
4 years ago...well the width of transistors decreases by half every 12 to 18 months so that computer can be reduced to less than one city block...but remember that the Brain is modelled in 3D, wheras the CPUs have 2D architecture.
So unless they start building computers in 3D they'll still be a long way off coming close to the Brain's processing power.