There is an inconvenient truth in technology: The amount of data keeps growing exponentially, while the increases in the power of computers are slowing down.
Somebody needs to invent a new way for computers to work—different from the programmable electronic machines that have dominated since the 1950s. Otherwise, we’ll either get overrun by data we can’t use or we’ll end up building data centers the size of Rhode Island that suck up so much electricity they’ll need their own nuclear power plants.
And, seriously, does the world want Google to have nuclear capabilities?
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