Space Time Stories

We certainly could build a supercomputer with its own dedicated nuclear power plant. My guess is that we won’t. So as long as we use CMOS transistors for computation there is a maximum supercomputer we will build. And that will happen in roughly 10 years.

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Many people scoff and have problems even understanding the Singularity.  With credit to Charlie Stross the singularity is defined as a specific 13 year period from 2047 through 2060.  Here is a chart of the computational speed of the fastest computer in the world, as measured in floating point operations per second.  You can see [...]

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John Denardo posted a link to Vernor Vinge’s interview from Reason.tv Vernor Vinge is a professor at San Diego State University famous for his thoughts and fiction surrounding the upcoming singularity. Related posts Review of Vinge’s ‘Rainbows End’ (0) What is the Singularity? (3) Singularity, a free audiobook (3) Science Fiction for Smart People (1)

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I have started listening to a free audiobook, Singularity by Bill DeSmedt. So far it’s great, it’s about the real cause of the Tunguska explosion. I’ll review the book when I’m done listening to it. I listen to it as a podcast feed.  I had some trouble setting up the feed in iTunes, the response [...]

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Suppose the cosmologists have it wrong and dark matter really is composed of baryons.  It’s not like cosmologists have a great track record.  Most of their theories have been proven wrong over the past few centuries.  Comparing the track record of mathematicians with cosmologists is pretty much night and day.  When a mathematician says they [...]

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Charlie Stross writes in Accelerando about a variety of topics which challenge even the most technically savvy readers. First he mentions a Matrioshka brain, a massive extension of the Dyson Sphere. Imagine a Dyson Sphere is built which consists almost entirely of computational nodes. Each node will radiate a little waste heat so the entire [...]

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