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Jun 272011
 

It was back in 2006 when TED started to offer their talks online. Five years latter the number of talks has grown from 6 to nearly 1000 videos, and 500 million views. Excellent content, highly recommendable!

Apr 012011
 

Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comics often conceal the existential despair of their world with a closing joke at the characters’ expense. With the last panel omitted, despair pervades all.”  3eanuts.

Mar 212011
 

World’s Total CPU Power: One Human Brain | Wired Science | Wired.com.

Our total storage capacity is the same as an adult human’s DNA. And there are several billion humans on the planet.

To put our findings in perspective, the 6.4*1018 instructions per second that human kind can carry out on its general-purpose computers in 2007 are in the same ballpark area as the maximum number of nerve impulses executed by one human brain per second.

The above may be true, but computers, as opposed to humans, are always increasing their capacity and computational power. Furthermore it is easier to make a computer than a human being. It does make you think how things will be in … years (fill in the blank).