It still gives me a giggle that the flops numbers you're talking about were supercomputer-level when I was a kid, and now I can buy that kind of power with beer money and lose it in the back of a drawer.
On the other hand, it’s sad how we failed the software.
We have devices capable of many GFlops in our pockets and many TFlops on our desks, yet we pay by hours to use computers operated by companies like Amazon or Microsoft.
We have devices capable of many GFlops in our pockets and many TFlops on our desks, yet we pay by hours to use computers operated by companies like Amazon or Microsoft.