Is increasing economic inequality inevitable without catastrophe?

roethlisburger
Thu, 11 May 2017 17:53:25 +0000

musicprnt:

today people have the power of a supercomputer 15 years ago sitting in their hands.

This is a little bit of an exaggeration. An iPhone 7 Plus might be capable of 100 Gflops. Supercomputing broke the teraflop barrier in 1996. There’s some indication, https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601441/moores-law-is-dead-now-what/, this exponential growth in computing power is slowing down.