the singularity is nigh

What's kind of neat is that the variance of compute-power is decreasing as the years roll on, indicating a convergence of commodity parts. (Although this may be due to a non-representative sample; for history, there's ENIAC but none of today's special-purpose super-computers are listed.

I'm also far from convinced that `3-D perception', doth a guppy make... Let alone the progression of skills -> adaptation -> imagination -> reasoning.

Also, I like how "manual calculation" is way below "bacterium". But then, why have humans wasted so much time on it...?

http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/talks/revo.slides/power.aug.curve/power.aug.gif