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The 4 hardest computing problems on earth - Bigger brains needed (1) - FORTUNE. America's most powerful supercomputer runs calculations so quickly it makes your laptop look like an abacus.

The 4 hardest computing problems on earth - Bigger brains needed (1) - FORTUNE

The machine, called Titan, is located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. It is also the fastest supercomputer the world. It can process more than 17 petaflops of data per second -- that's roughly 20,000 trillion simultaneous calculations. Though Titan has the strength of 500,000 laptops, computer scientists are hungry for more. I think that talking about the “post-scarcity... I think that talking about the “post-scarcity economy” is weird seeing as how so many people already live in a post-scarcity world, and yet still manage to create scarcity for themselves.

I think that talking about the “post-scarcity...

By all accounts, what you need to live a satisfied, pleasant life can be purchased relatively inexpensively nowadays. People 100 years ago would look at the lifestyle of a middle class American and their jaws would drop at the wealth. NEXT WORLD - Intel Claytronics (Programmable Matter)