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Comment Innovation != marketing breakthroughs (Score 1) 378
I think Wadhwa is biased by his startup background and confuses marketing breakthroughs with real scientific and technological innovation. From my experience (in the biotechnology sector), almost all real innovation takes places at universities, research institutes and larger companies. Startups are very useful for commercializing innovations, especially discoveries made at universities (which is how Google got started), but they are rarely innovative.
Comment Re:The Atoms (Score 1) 362
Yes, but that is 100 processors with no hard disk, RAM or motherboard.
Comment Re:The Atoms (Score 2, Informative) 362
The computational power of the human brain, which uses only 25 watts, is estimated to be between 10^13 and 10^23 instructions per second [1]. This means the human brain is 100 to 10^12 times more powerful than a high-end desktop. So computers still have a way to go before they could possibly approach any physical limits.
1. Merkle, 1989: 10^13-10^16 IPS; Maravec, 1997: 10^14 IPS; Thagard, 2002: 10^23 IPS; Modha, 2009: 3.8*10^16 IPS.
Comment Skeptical (Score 1) 1
Stuff like this leads me to believe that any “net neutrality” legislation that passes will be subtly crafted to benefit insiders.
Submission + - Google Responds to Net Neutrality Reviews (blogspot.com) 1
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "Google has written a defense of their joint Net Neutrality proposal with Verizon, responding to criticism like the EFF's recent review. Google presents its arguments as a list of myths and facts, but too many of them look like this one: 'MYTH: This proposal would eliminate network neutrality over wireless. FACT: It's true that Google previously has advocated for certain openness safeguards to be applied in a similar fashion to what would be applied to wireline services. However, in the spirit of compromise, [...]'. The silver lining here is that Google doesn't seem to employ any skilled liars."
Comment Re:This is pretty much what I've been telling peop (Score 1) 973
It really depends on what kind of extrapolating function you use. The way I see it, in 70 million years we will be small rodent-like lizards again.
