Orange Liquid

Monday May 23, 2005 - 4:58PM EDT

I just have to laugh at some of these physicists and futurists who just have no idea. They are so close to technology that it is all they see. It limits them. Technology becomes their basis, not their own pure thought.

"The new PlayStation is 1 per cent as powerful as a human brain,” he said. “It is into supercomputer status compared to 10 years ago. PlayStation 5 will probably be as powerful as the human brain.” - full article

First of all, we haven't even come close to quantatively measuring the power and ability of the human brain. Time and time again we are still amazed by something humans are able to do, so to make that statement is ludicrous. I like his exploratory statements but I think whoever wrote the article is missing something. Not that he is crazy but that he is shortsighted in his approach. He is making statements of the future based on things that are still unknown or fully explored today. You just can't make such huge steps like that in thinking, you set yourself up for disaster. The playstation comment from above being a prime example. Kinda of fun to think about, but really, that idea of brain downloading is not even original, I've seen it so many times before, I am not sure why slashdot.org chose to link to the story.