For those of you who think technology has slowed down:

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Take a look at this and tell me about technology slowing down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E25jgPg ... re=related

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The really amazing thing is that the type of in-depth bioinformatics work that required specialized supercomputers back in the 90s, and was basically impossible in the 80s, is now possible for anyone to do on their home PC. I can sit in my apartment and do meaningful biological research with nothing but my laptop and an internet connection.

Check this out too. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12419672

or the fact that george lucas spent millions and millions of dollars on the special effects for star wars films (ships, lightsabers,etc) and the people that made the original battlestar galactica paid almost a million dollars (in those days!!) per episode just for a few seconds worth of special effects... that Star Trek up until the Voyager series required an entire team of CGI and tens of thousands of dollars for the ship special effects...


which today can be done in a home PC by those who know how to do a bit of 3d modeling.

Who said technology was slowing down? It has merely moved into cloud computing and distributed models. It is easier and cheaper to distribute a task than create a computer like Roadrunner to crunch numbers for it.