Dark Roasted Blend: Most Powerful Supercomputers: Brains and Beauty: "'Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.'
- Popular Mechanics (1949)
In Isaac Asimov's classic story, 'The Last Question,' a supercomputer is, again and again, asked how to deal with the eventual heat death of universe. After upgrade upon upgrade, it finally has an answer -- but, alas, no one is left to hear it, because the universe has ended. So it simply states its answer out loud: 'Let there be light.'"
Monday, January 26, 2009
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