Mez wrote:
>2) Rate of computational power growth. In _Age of Spiritual Machines_
>(my copy is also on loan so I will again go out on a limb) Kurzweil
>projects computational power growing by a factor of 10^3 every decade.
Wrong again. From page 105: "...the capacity of computing will double ten
times every decade, which is a factor of one thousand (2^10) every ten years."
By the way, my apologies for my redundant posting earlier --I didn't see
that the fallacy had already been corrected by Max.
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