| >Think of them as something closer to brute force. Well brute force is something I had waited for all my life so it could make a personal computing experience higher performance and more fulfilling. By the time 1980 rolled around. In some ways it's like a fundamental assumption that's always been there and nobody questions or really "thinks" about. It hurts the brain, sooner or later you want a computer to be able to do some thinking for you ;) It's one of the easiest tech concepts to understand, especially for those who don't have very deep abilities. Hardware is hardware, stronger is stronger, and quantity has its own qualities. People in certain positions can go farther with nothing more than this firm a grasp of computer science or intelligence and it shows. The only thing to be gained by continuing to grow the scale of "datacenters" from this point is the brutishness. I expect it to pay off too, for those who can afford it, just not for everybody. |