In The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), Ray Kurzweil predicted that in 2009, a $1000 computing device would be able to perform a trillion operations per second. Additionally, he claimed that in 2019, a $1000 computing device would be approximately equal to the computational ability of the human brain (due to Moore's Law and exponential growth.)Did Kurzweil's first prediction come true? Are we on pace for his second prediction to come true? If not, how many years off are we?
In 2016, can $1000.00 buy enough operations per second to be approximately equal to the computational power of a human brain?
hypercomputation