From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 00:56:00 MDT
There's lots of pervertible hardware out there in form of units,
but as now the units' limited number of transistors and how
these transistors are organized as well as relatively slow
high-latency links do not make the potential appear dangerous.
Another issue is architecture: we have trees branching out
from the backbone instead of a switched local mesh with a
few long-haul links, which would be far more suitable for
a mind.
Several decades in the future, continued growth of integration
density assuming as well as availability of purely photonic switched
networks as well as the advent of fully reconfigurable architectures
the situation might (despite the assertive tone I haven't been
there, so how can I tell?) be different.
There are a few more interesting threads, but I can't afford to
comment on them.
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