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This little piece reminds me of a conversation I had about the power of modern mobile phones.

Given a modern flagship phone, what year was that phone equivalent to total world computational power?

For example, based on TFA, a Pi5 represents a around a thousand Cray 1 systems in 1977. Based on that seems likely that a single Pi5 outstrips total world supercomputer capacity in 1977.

We tossed some numbers around, but the rough consensus was that the were likely to have the 60s covered and most of the 70s as well. Given that this was a decade ago, I expect that we could move forward a few years.