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by andr3w321 4785 days ago
This is definitely not true. More money is spent on building and renting supercomputers every year even through the recession. There is tremendous demand out there for solving problems that would just not be possible without them. I believe Google's self driving cars collect 1 GB/sec of data.

It's just that we have a hard time imagining why we would ever need such a powerful CPU which is why you are saying this. Why would someone in 2005 ever imagine we need such a powerful computer in our pocket in 2013? What possible uses could we have for it?

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Easy: Angry Birds!